A novel method for mutation based program testing
Mutation testing is an effective approach to measure and guarantee a certain degree of software quality. However traditional approach of mutation testing still needs to improve.Based on studies of program slice and mutant techniques, a novel slice-mutant based program testing method is proposed.The method consists of a new criterion to evaluate the quality of a test suite and a corresponding test process to enact the approach. An algorithm to generate slice-mutant is also given.With test experiments of a case program, the approachs validness and powerful error detecting ability are comparing to the traditional mutation testing method. The proposed method complements the traditional mutation testing method and provides a way to achieve higher software quality guarantee.
mutation testing program slicing slice-mutant testing test quality criterion
CAI Guoyong LIN Yuming
Department of computer seience Guilin University of Electronie Technology Guilin 541004, PR China Department of computer science Guilin University of Electronic Technology,Guilin 541004, PR China
国际会议
武汉
英文
952-957
2007-07-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）