Inferface mutation (abstract only)
Sudipto Ghosh, Aditya P. Mathur · Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks · 2001
Applications that utilize the broker-based architecture are often composed of several components that need to be tested both separately and together. An important activity during testing is the assessment of the adequacy of test sets. Testers use one or more adequacy criteria for this activity. Traditional test adequacy criteria have several limitations for commercial use. A test adequacy criterion based on interface mutation has been identified and a testing method that uses this criterion proposed. This method incorporates elements from a component's interface description for per-forming interface mutation. The interface mutation based test adequacy criterion was evaluated empirically and compared with control flow-based coverage criteria for their relative effectiveness in revealing errors and the cost incurred in developing the test sets. A formal analysis of the fault-detection ability of the testing methods was also carried out.