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Presentation 2016-05-27 10:00
Reducing the number of mutants with equivalent bug detection ability
Tomohiro Ueno, Hirohide Haga (Doshisha Univ.) KBSE2016-5
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) Mutation analysis is a method to evaluate the software test cases set quality. In mutation analysis, mutant programs are generated by injecting bugs into the original program intentionally. The quality of test cases set is evaluated whether the bugs are detected or not by the test cases set. When we apply all mutation operators to all statements to original program, the number of generated mutant programs becomes huge. When the number of generated mutant programs becomes huge, generation time, compilation and execution time of mutant programs become enormous. Thus, it is necessary to reduce the number of generated mutant programs in practical application of mutation analysis. In order to solve this problem, various methods have already been studied. Many of these methods allowed bug detection ]ability to be deterioration. However the criteria deteriorating bug detection ability to some extant has not yet determined. For that reason, there is a possibility that mutation analysis cannot evaluate the software test cases set quality accurately. Thus, we tried to reduce the number of mutant programs with equivalent bug detection ability.
This article is the study on the method for reducing the number of mutant programs
with equivalent bug detection ability using symbolic execution. The result of symbolic
execution is a set of the pairs of symbolic value and path condition. Using the result of
symbolic execution, we could realize reducing the number of mutant programs
with equivalent bug detection ability.
Keyword (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) Mutation Analysis / Symbolic execution / Constraint Satisfaction / Software Testing / Quality Assessment / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 116, no. 67, KBSE2016-5, pp. 25-30, May 2016.
Paper # KBSE2016-5 
Date of Issue 2016-05-19 (KBSE) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Conference Information
Committee KBSE  
Conference Date 2016-05-26 - 2016-05-27 
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Place (in English) Doshisha Univ. Tokyo Branch Office 
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Conference Code 2016-05-KBSE 
Language Japanese 
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
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Title (in English) Reducing the number of mutants with equivalent bug detection ability 
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Keyword(1) Mutation Analysis  
Keyword(2) Symbolic execution  
Keyword(3) Constraint Satisfaction  
Keyword(4) Software Testing  
Keyword(5) Quality Assessment  
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1st Author's Name Tomohiro Ueno  
1st Author's Affiliation Doshisha Univiersity (Doshisha Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Hirohide Haga  
2nd Author's Affiliation Doshisha Univiersity (Doshisha Univ.)
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Date Time 2016-05-27 10:00:00 
Presentation Time 45 minutes 
Registration for KBSE 
Paper # KBSE2016-5 
Volume (vol) vol.116 
Number (no) no.67 
Page pp.25-30 
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Date of Issue 2016-05-19 (KBSE) 


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