Operator Based Efficient Mutant Generation Methods for Procedural and Object-Oriented Languages

Testing refers to the inspection of software whether it fulfills the desire objectives or not by means of examines the presence of any error/bugs in a program. Mutation testing deploys a “change and check” testing strategy. A program (original program) is slightly modified (called as mutated program) examine by using same input sets and hoping for different outputs for original as well as mutated programs. In this paper, we practically explore all possible types of mutant operator generation in procedural and object-oriented language.

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