@inproceedings{9aa6e19c6bdc4deb8f0782e31dc4884b,
title = "Impact of mutation operators on the ratio of equivalent mutants",
abstract = "Software mutation is a widely used technique of software testing that consists in generating variants of a base program by applying standard modifications to its source code. One of the main obstacles in the use of software mutations is the existence of equivalent mutants, i.e. mutants whose behavior is indistinguishable from the base program, even though their source code is distinct. Despite several decades of research, the identification of equivalent mutants remains an open problem. Rather than attempting to identify individual mutants that are equivalent to the base, we argue that it is often sufficient to estimate the number of equivalent mutants; also, we argue that the number of equivalent mutants depends on two factors that must be considered in the estimation effort, namely the base program and the mutation operators that are used; in this paper, we explore the impact of mutation operators on the number of equivalent mutants.",
keywords = "Equivalent mutants, Mutation operators, Semantic metrics, Software mutation, Software testing",
author = "Imen Marsit and Omri, {Mohamed Nazih} and Loh, {Ji Meng} and Ali Mili",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 The authors and IOS Press. All rights reserved.; 17th International Conference on New Trends in Intelligent Software Methodology Tools and Techniques, SoMeT 2018 ; Conference date: 26-09-2018 Through 28-09-2018",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.3233/978-1-61499-900-3-664",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications",
publisher = "IOS Press BV",
pages = "664--677",
editor = "Hamido Fujita and Enrique Herrera-Viedma",
booktitle = "New Trends in Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference, SoMeT 2018",
address = "Netherlands",
}