Mutation testing realizes the idea of using artificial defects to support testing activities.
Mutation is typically used as a way to evaluate the adequacy of test suites, to guide the …

Mutation Testing is a fault-based software testing technique that has been widely studied for
over three decades. The literature on Mutation Testing has contributed a set of approaches …

Context The field of mutation analysis has been growing, both in the number of published
papers and the number of active researchers. This special issue provides a sampling of …

This paper introduces a new paradigm for Mutation Testing, which we call Higher Order
Mutation Testing (HOM Testing). Traditional Mutation Testing considers only first order …

The current virtualization solution in the Cloud widely relies on hypervisor-based
technologies. Along with the recent popularity of Docker, the container-based virtualization …

The need for test adequacy criteria is widely recognized. Several criteria have been
proposed for the assessment of adequacy of tests at the unit level. However, there remains a …

Context: Due to the widespread use of Android devices, Android applications (apps) have
more releases, purchases, and downloads than apps for any other mobile devices. The …

The rising popularity of mobile apps deployed on battery-constrained devices underlines the
need for effectively evaluating their energy properties. However, currently there is a lack of …

The establishment of a low-cost, effective testing and validation strategy has been pursued
by many researchers at the program level as well as at the specification level. The …

This paper rigorously introduces the concept of model-based mutation testing (MBMT) and
positions it in the landscape of mutation testing. Two elementary mutation operators …