NDLI: MUGAMMA: Mutation Analysis of Deployed Software to Increase Confidence and Assist Evolution

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MUGAMMA: Mutation Analysis of Deployed Software to Increase Confidence and Assist Evolution

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Sang-Woon Kim Harrold, M.J. Yong-Rae Kwon
Copyright Year	2006
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of EECS, KAIST, Daejeon (Sang-Woon Kim)
Abstract	This paper presents a novel approach to unit testing that lets users of deployed software assist in performing mutation testing of the software. Our technique, MUGAMMA, provisions a software system so that when it executes in the field, it will determine whether users' executions would have killed mutants (without actually executing the mutants), and if so, captures the state information about those executions. In the absence of bug reports, knowledge of executions that would have killed mutants provides additional confidence in the system over that gained by the testing performed before deployment. Captured information about the state before and after execution of units (e.g., methods) can be used to construct test cases for use in unit testing when changes are made to the software. The paper also describes our prototype MuGamma implementation along with a case study that demonstrates its potential efficacy.
Starting Page	10
Ending Page	10
File Size	321393
Page Count	1
File Format	PDF
ISBN	076952897X
DOI	10.1109/MUTATION.2006.8
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2006-11-07
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Software testing Performance evaluation System testing Automatic testing Genetic mutations Software performance Software quality Performance analysis Environmental economics Monitoring
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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