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    The document discusses mutation testing, which involves introducing small faults or changes ("mutations") in a program's source code and testing whether test cases can detect the differences. The key points covered are: - Mutation testing assesses test case quality by determining if they can detect mutated code - It involves steps like creating mutant programs with single changes, running test cases on original and mutant programs, and comparing results - If a test case causes a mutant program to fail, the test case "kills" that mutant - The mutation score is the percentage of killed mutants out of the total, with 100% being the goal - Tools can automate mutation testing, which is otherwise time-consuming - While powerful,

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    The document discusses mutation testing, which involves introducing small faults or changes ("mutations") in a program's source code and testing whether test cases can detect the differences. The key points covered are: - Mutation testing assesses test case quality by determining if they can detect mutated code - It involves steps like creating mutant programs with single changes, running test cases on original and mutant programs, and comparing results - If a test case causes a mutant program to fail, the test case "kills" that mutant - The mutation score is the percentage of killed mutants out of the total, with 100% being the goal - Tools can automate mutation testing, which is otherwise time-consuming - While powerful,

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    The document discusses mutation testing, which involves introducing small faults or changes ("mutations") in a program's source code and testing whether test cases can detect the differences. The key points covered are: - Mutation testing assesses test case quality by determining if they can detect mutated code - It involves steps like creating mutant programs with single changes, running test cases on original and mutant programs, and comparing results - If a test case causes a mutant program to fail, the test case "kills" that mutant - The mutation score is the percentage of killed mutants out of the total, with 100% being the goal - Tools can automate mutation testing, which is otherwise time-consuming - While powerful,

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    Software Development

    mutation Testing
    D Kashe
    Physics Department
    Chancellor College

    Mutation Testing intro


    In Mutation Testing, we mutate (change) certain statements in the
    source code and check if the test cases are able to find the errors.
    It is a type of white box testing which is mainly used for unit testing.
    The changes in mutant program are kept extremely small, so it
    does not affect the overall objective of the program.
    The goal of Mutation Testing is to assess the quality of the test
    cases which should be robust enough to fail mutant code.
    This method is also called as Fault based testing strategy as it
    involves creating fault in the program.
    Mutation was originally proposed in 1971 but lost fervor due to high
    costs involved. Now, again it has picked steam and is widely used
    for languages such as Java and XML.

    How to execute mutation testing?

    Following are the steps to execute


    mutation testing:
    Step 1: Faults are introduced into the source code of
    the program by creating many versions called mutants.
    Each mutant should contain a single fault, and the goal
    is to cause the mutant version to fail which
    demonstrates the effectiveness of the test cases.
    Step 2: Test cases are applied to the original program
    and also to the mutant program. A test case should be
    adequate, and it is tweaked to detect faults in a
    program.
    Step 3: Compare the results of original and mutant
    program.

    Step 4: If the original program and mutant programs


    generate the same output, then that the mutant is killed
    by the test case. Hence the test case is good enough to
    detect the change between the original and the mutant
    program.
    Step 5: If the original program and mutant program
    generate different output, Mutant is kept alive. In such
    cases , more effective test cases need to be created
    that kill all mutants.

    How to Create Mutant


    Programs?
    A mutation is nothing but a single syntactic change that
    is made to the program statement. Each mutant
    program should differ from the original program by one
    mutation.
    Original Program
    Mutant Program
    If (x>y)
    Print "Hello"
    Else
    Print "Hi"

    If(x<y< strong="">)</y<>
    Print "Hello"
    Else
    Print "Hi"

    Automation of Mutation Testing:


    Mutation testing is extremely time consuming and
    complicated to execute manually.
    To speed up the process, it is advisable to go for
    automation tools. Automation tools reduce cost of
    testing as well.
    List of tools available Ninja Turtles- .net mutation testing tool
    Mutagenesis- PHP mutation testing framework
    Jester- Mutation Testing Tool for Java

    Mutation Score:
    The mutation score is defined as the percentage of
    killed mutants with the total number of mutants.
    Mutation Score = (Killed Mutants / Total number of
    Mutants) * 100
    Test cases are mutation adequate if the score is 100%.
    Experimental results have shown that mutation testing
    is an effective approach for the measuring the
    adequacy of the test cases.
    But, the main drawback is that the high cost of
    generating the mutants and executing each test case
    against that mutant program.

    Advantages and Disadvantages of Mutation


    Testing:
    Following are the advantages of Mutation Testing:
    It is a powerful approach to attain high coverage of the source
    program.
    This testing is capable comprehensively testing the mutant
    program.
    Mutation testing brings a good level of error detection to the
    software developer.
    This method uncovers ambiguities in the source code, and has
    the capacity to detect all the faults in the program.
    Customers are benefited from this testing by getting most
    reliable and stable system.

    Conclusion:
    Do you want an exhaustive testing of your application?
    Answer is Mutation testing.
    It is the most comprehensive technique to test a
    program.
    This is the method which checks for the effectiveness
    and accuracy of a testing program to detect the faults
    or errors in the system.

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