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 …

Automated Program Repair (APR) is one of the most recent advances in automated
debugging, and can directly fix buggy programs with minimal human intervention. Although …

Mutation faults are the core of mutation testing and have been widely used in many other
software testing and debugging tasks. Hence, constructing high-quality mutation faults is …

Mutation analysis is a well-studied, fault-based testing technique. It requires testers to
design tests based on a set of artificial defects. The defects help in performing testing …

Defining test oracles is crucial and central to test development, but manual construction of
oracles is expensive. While recent neural-based automated test oracle generation …

Mutation testing is an established fault-based testing technique. It operates by seeding faults
into the programs under test and asking developers to write tests that reveal these faults …

Much research on software engineering relies on experimental studies based on fault
injection. Fault injection, however, is not often relevant to emulate real-world software faults …

Mutation testing (MT) targets the assessment of test cases by measuring their efficiency to
detect faults. This technique involves modifying the program under test to emulate …

Greybox fuzzing and mutation testing are two popular but mostly independent fields of
software testing research that have so far had limited overlap. Greybox fuzzing, generally …

The question of which are the valuable mutants has received little attention in mutation
testing literature. Naturally, the choice of mutants impacts the quality of the performed …