cris.boxmetadata.label.title
Heuristics applied to mutation testing in an impure functional programming language
cris.boxmetadata.label.dateissued
01 browse.startsWith.months.january 2019
cris.boxmetadata.label.accesslevel
open access
cris.boxmetadata.label.resourcetype
journal article
cris.boxmetadata.label.publisher
Science and Information Organization
cris.boxmetadata.label.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.
cris.boxmetadata.label.citationstartpage
538
cris.boxmetadata.label.citationendpage
548
cris.boxmetadata.label.volume
10
cris.boxmetadata.label.issue
6
cris.boxmetadata.label.language
English
cris.boxmetadata.label.ocdeknowledgeArea
Informática y Ciencias de la Información Otras ingenierías y tecnologías Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones
cris.boxmetadata.label.doi
cris.boxmetadata.label.scopusidentifier
2-s2.0-85070527479
cris.boxmetadata.label.source
International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications
cris.boxmetadata.label.containerissn
2158107X
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