Title
Heuristics applied to mutation testing in an impure functional programming language
Date Issued
01 January 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Science and Information Organization
Abstract
The task of elaborating accurate test suites for program testing can be an extensive computational work. Mutation testing is not immune to the problem of being a computational and time-consuming task so that it has found relief in the use of heuristic techniques. The use of Genetic Algorithms in mutation testing has proved to be useful for probing test suites, but it has mainly been enclosed only in the field of imperative programming paradigms. Therefore, we decided to test the feasibility of using Genetic Algorithms for performing mutation testing in functional programming environments. We tested our proposal by making a graph representations of four different functional programs and applied a Genetic Algorithm to generate a population of mutant programs. We found that it is possible to obtain a set of mutants that could find flaws in test suites in functional programming languages. Additionally, we encountered that when a source code increases its number of instructions it was simpler for a genetic algorithm to find a mutant that can avoid all of the test cases.
Start page
538
End page
548
Volume
10
Issue
6
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Otras ingenierías y tecnologías Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones Informática y Ciencias de la Información
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85070527479
Source
International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications
ISSN of the container
2158107X
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