Software Engineering | Testing | White Box Testing | Mutation Testing

Mutation Testing

Mutation testing is used to test the quality of your test suite. This is done by mutating certain statements in your source code and checking if your test code is able to find the errors. However, mutation testing is very expensive to run, especially on very large applications. There is a mutation testing tool, Jester, which can be used to run mutation tests on Java code. Jester looks at specific areas of your source code, for example: forcing a path through an if statement, changing constant values, and changing Boolean values

Author: Laurie Williams and Sarah Heckman

Maintained By: Sarah Heckman

Last Updated: 2008-08-25