Mutation Testing and Test Data Generation Approaches: A Review
Meenu Dave, Rashmi Agrawal · Communications in computer and information science · 2016
Software advancement has increased the complexities many fold and to meet the quality standards, a lot of research is being done in designing new testing methodologies and tools. Mutation testing is a proven effective technique but the high cost attached with it averts it from establishing it as an industrial tool. The review is an extension of the previous work where a review was done on search based test data generation and mutation testing. The objective is to study the remaining techniques/approaches and summaries the discussion of both the reviews. The application of mutation testing with various techniques at various phases of software development along with various languages/tools show that it is a versatile, adaptable and efficient, which is motivating the researchers to explore the new areas.