Mutation operators for UML class diagrams

Autor: Granda Juca, María Fernanda
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Repositorio Universidad de Cuenca
Universidad de Cuenca
instacron:UCUENCA
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-39696-5_20&partnerID=40&md5=ed7608d9043acf4bed4c0ca8f8864469
Popis: Mutation Testing is a well-established technique for assessing the quality of test cases by checking how well they detect faults injected into a software artefact (mutant). Using this technique, the most critical activity is the adequate design of mutation operators so that they reflect typical defects of the artefact under test. This paper presents the design of a set of mutation operators for Conceptual Schemas (CS) based on UML Class Diagrams (CD). In this paper, the operators are defined in accordance with an existing defects classification for UML CS and relevant elements identified from the UML-CD meta-model. The operators are subsequently used to generate first order mutants for a CS under test. Finally, in order to analyse the usefulness of the mutation operators, we measure some basic characteristics of mutation operators with three different CSs under test. Ljubljana
Databáze: OpenAIRE