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Analysis of Mutation Operators for the Python Language

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Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Dependability and Complex Systems DepCoS-RELCOMEX. June 30 – July 4, 2014, Brunów, Poland

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 286))

Abstract

A mutation introduced into a source code of a dynamically typed program can generate an incompetent mutant. Such a mutant manifests a type-related error that cannot be detected before the mutant execution. To avoid this problem, a program mutation can be provided at run-time, or incompetent mutants should be automatically detected and eliminated. We showed that the latter solution can effectively be applied providing selected mutation operators. This paper discusses mutation operators to be used for mutation testing of Python programs. Standard and object-oriented mutation operators were applied to the Python language. Python-related operators dealing with decorators and collection slices were proposed. The operators were implemented in MutPy, the tool for mutation testing of Python programs, and experimentally evaluated.

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  1. Institute of Computer Science, Warsaw University of Technology, Nowowiejska 15/19, 00-665, Warsaw, Poland

    Anna Derezińska & Konrad Hałas

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  1. Institute of Computer Engineering Control and Robotics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Wojciech Zamojski

  2. Institute of Computer Engineering Control and Robotics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Jacek Mazurkiewicz

  3. Institute of Computer Engineering Control and Robotics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Jarosław Sugier

  4. Institute of Computer Engineering Control and Robotics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Tomasz Walkowiak

  5. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    Janusz Kacprzyk

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Derezińska, A., Hałas, K. (2014). Analysis of Mutation Operators for the Python Language. In: Zamojski, W., Mazurkiewicz, J., Sugier, J., Walkowiak, T., Kacprzyk, J. (eds) Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Dependability and Complex Systems DepCoS-RELCOMEX. June 30 – July 4, 2014, Brunów, Poland. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 286. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07013-1_15

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