IITM Journal of management and IT
Year : 2013, Volume : 4, Issue : 2
First page : ( 11) Last page : ( 14)
Print ISSN : 0976-8629. Online ISSN : 2349-9826.

Orthogonality of Mutation Operators

 Nipur*, Kumar Rakesh**, Gupta Priyanka***

*GKV, Dehradun

**KUK University, Kurukshetra

***MAIMT, Jagadhri

Online published on 27 July, 2015.

Abstract

Mutation testing has been proved to be a good technique in revealing faults in different paradigms. But the computational expenses of using the technique are the major hurdle in its practical usage. Selective mutation has been proposed as an alternative to reduce the cost by many researchers. Orthogonality is a common programming language feature which exhibits linear independence in some sense. This paper suggests the use of Orthogonality of mutation operators, to select mutation operators with unique functionality which in turn can help to reduce the cost of mutation testing. Orthogonality of different mutation operators in procedural, object oriented and declarative paradigms has been discussed.

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Keywords

Cost Reduction for Mutation Testing, Mutation Analysis, Orthogonal Mutation Operators.

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