Project : triskell

Section: Software

Keywords : Test , test by mutation , Java , .Net .

Mutator : Mutation testing tool family for OO programs

Participants : Yves Le Traon [correspondant], Benoit Baudry, Franck Fleurey.

The level of confidence in a software component is often linked to the quality of its test cases. This quality can in turn be evaluated with mutation analysis: faulty components (mutants) are systematically generated to check the proportion of mutants detected ("killed") by the test cases. The work consisted in proposing specific OO mutation operators and the corresponding tools for Java and C# programs : the Mutator line of mutation tools is available for Java anc C# languages. This work has been carried out in collaboration with Daniel Deveaux from UBS.