Teste de Integração: Projeto de Operadores para o Critério Mutação de Interface

Márcio Eduardo Delamaro; José Carlos Maldonado

doi:10.5753/sbes.1997.24062

Márcio Eduardo Delamaro USP
José Carlos Maldonado USP

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbes.1997.24062

Abstract

One of the most important points in the testing activity is the selection of effective test case sets. Several test adequacy criteria have been proposed to support the selection of test cases but most of them are restricted to unit test. This fact is mostly due to the characteristcs of such testing criteria that specify test requirements in the scope of a single unit. This paper presents a mutation based interprocedural test criterion, named Interface Mutation, suitable to be used at integration testing phase and the set of mutation operators designed specifically to that criterion. Also presents a summary of results obtained by applying the criterion in some empirical studies already conducted using PROTEUM/IM, a tool that supports the application of Interface Mutation criterion.

Keywords: Software Testing, Mutation Testing, Interface Mutation, Mutation Operators

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