Cream - a system for object-oriented mutation of C# programs

Creator of Mutants (CREAM) is a tool that introduces small faults called mutations into C# programs. It is useful to investigate the quality of a mutated program and effectiveness of a prepared test suite. The CREAM system generates several object-oriented types of faults, puts them into the code of the original program according to its parsed trees, and compiles the modified sources. Obtained assemblies can be tested measuring the number of revealed modifications. CREAM cooperates with NUnit for running of test suites against the set of mutants.

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