An effective method for mutating Java programs

Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2003, Pages 252-257

  Mastorantonakis, M ^a   Malevris, N ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Mutants; Mutation testing; Program testing; Software testing

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; COMPUTER TESTING; DATA REDUCTION; ESTIMATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

MUTANTS; MUTATION TESTING; PROGRAM TESTING; SOFTWARE TESTING;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 1542433740     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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