National Program on Key Basic Research Project of China (973 Program) (No.2014CB046306-2);National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.61375067, No.61503220)
GONG Dun-wei, QIN Bei, TIAN Tian. Selecting Objects to be Mutated Based on Statement Importance[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2017, 45(6): 1518-1522.
DOI:
GONG Dun-wei, QIN Bei, TIAN Tian. Selecting Objects to be Mutated Based on Statement Importance[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2017, 45(6): 1518-1522. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0372-2112.2017.06.034.
Selecting Objects to be Mutated Based on Statement Importance
a novel method of selecting mutation object is proposed so as to reduce mutants.In this method
three factors that reflect the importance of an object are given
and then an index system of evaluating the importance of an object is established based on the importance of these factors.Finally
statements with high importance are selected as the objects to be mutated according to the values of these indexes.The proposed method is applied to test eight benchmark or industrial programs
and the experimental results suggest that the proposed method significantly improves the efficiency of mutation testing with high mutation sufficiency.