Output details
11 - Computer Science and Informatics
University of York
Article title
Semantic mutation testing
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Science of Computer Programming
Article number
-
Volume number
78
Issue number
4
First page of article
345
ISSN of journal
0167-6423
Year of publication
2013
Number of additional authors
2
Additional information
<09>Since the 1970s mutation testing has made small syntactic changes in descriptions (typically programs) and determined whether test sets could detect such injected faults (a set's ability to do so is deemed a measure of its effectiveness). This paper is first to investigate mutation of the semantics of the underlying language (modelling, for example, diverging understanding by developers of description language semantics) - a radical shift. This fundamental approach is applicable to descriptions in langauges of any level of abstraction. Early draft was basis for successful collaborative EPSRC grant (EP/G04354X/1 and EP/G043604/1).
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
I - Non-Standard Computation
Citation count
1
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
-
