The Mothra Tool Set

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Author

R.A. DeMillo, E.W. Krauser, R.J. Martin, A.J. Offutt, E.H. Spafford

Entry type

techreport

Abstract

Mothra is a software test environment tha supports mutation-based testing of software systems. Mutation analysis is a powerful software testing technique that evaluates the adequacy of test data based on its ability to differentiate between the program under test and its mutants, where mutants are constructed by inserting single, simple errors into the program under test. Mothra consists of a collection of individual tools, each of which implements a separate, independent function for the testing system. The initial Mothra tool set, for the most part, duplicates functionality existing in previous mutation analysis systems. Current efforts are constructed on extending this basic toolj set to include capabilities previously unavailable to the software testing community. The paper describes the current Mothra tol set extensions planned for the near future.

URL

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=48002

Institution

Purdue University

Key alpha

Spafford

Affiliation

Purdue University

Publication Date

2001-01-01

Keywords

Mothra

Language

ENGLISH

Subject

Mothra

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	institution = "Purdue University",
	abstract = "Mothra is a software test environment tha supports mutation-based testing of software systems.  Mutation analysis is a powerful software  testing technique that evaluates the adequacy of test data based on its ability to differentiate between the program under test and its mutants, where mutants are constructed by inserting single, simple errors into the program under test.  Mothra consists of a collection of individual tools, each of which implements a separate, independent function for the testing system.  The initial Mothra tool set, for the most part, duplicates functionality existing in previous mutation analysis systems.  Current efforts are constructed on extending this basic toolj set to include capabilities previously unavailable to the software testing community.  The paper describes the current Mothra tol set extensions planned for the near future.",
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	keywords = "Mothra",
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