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Using program slicing to assist in the detection of equivalent mutants
Author(s) -
Hierons Rob,
Harman Mark,
Danicic Sebastian
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
software testing, verification and reliability
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1099-1689
pISSN - 0960-0833
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1689(199912)9:4<233::aid-stvr191>3.0.co;2-3
Subject(s) - program slicing , slicing , computer science , mutation testing , mutant , process (computing) , software , programming language , mutation , reliability engineering , engineering , genetics , biology , world wide web , gene
While mutation testing has proved to be an effective way of finding software faults, currently it is only applied to relatively small programs. One of the main reasons for this is the human analysis required in detecting equivalent mutants. Here program slicing is used to simplify this problem. Progam slicing is also used to reduce the number of equivalent mutants produced. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.