Foundations of Software Testing (Fundamental Algorithms and Techniques) by Pearson

BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES

adequate with respect to the all-uses

criterion.

In Frankl et al. study, it is important to

note that the reported difference is small

and becomes apparent only at very high

levels of mutation adequacy. That mutation

is more effective than data flow does not

imply that one should use one technique

over the other. In fact, it is recommended

that tests that are adequate with respect to

data flow based or any other path-oriented

code-coverage criteria must be evaluated

against a mutation-based adequacy criteria

for further enhancement.

Researchers have often used mutation as

a means to study the fault-detection

effectiveness of other test-adequacy

criteria. Daran and Theévenod-Fosse [108]

and Andrews et al. [23] have studied the

representativeness ...