Unit and integration testing strategies for C programs using mutation-based criteria (abstract only)
Auri Marcelo Rizzo Vincenzi, Josá Carlos Maldonado, Ellen Francine Barbosa, Márcio Eduardo Delamaro · Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks · 2001
Mutation testing, originally proposed to unit testing, has been extended to integration testing with the proposition of the Interface Mutation criterion. In this paper we analyze the results of an experiment comparing two mutation-based testing criteria for unit and integration testing phases: the Mutation Analysis and the Interface Mutation adequacy criteria, respectively. The aim is to investigate how they could be used in a complementary way during the testing activity. We attempt to establish an incremental testing strategy comprising the unit and integration testing phases and guidelines on how to obtain a high mutation score with respect to mutation testing with a lower cost, in terms of the number of mutants generated.