RT journal article
T1 Class mutation operators for C++ object-oriented systems
A1 Delgado Pérez, Pedro
A1 Medina Bulo, María Inmaculada
A1 Domínguez Jiménez, Juan José
A1 Domínguez-García, Antonio
A1 Palomo Lozano, Francisco
A2 Ingeniería Informática
K1 Mutation testing
K1 Mutation operators
K1 C++
K1 Object-oriented programming
K1 Abstract syntax tree
K1 Web services
AB Mutation testing is a fault injection testing technique around which a great variety of studies and tools for different programming languages have been developed. Nevertheless, the mutation testing research with respect to C++ is pending. This paper proposes a set of class mutation operators related to this language and its particular object-oriented (OO) features. In addition, an implementation technique to apply mutation testing based on the traversal of the abstract syntax tree (AST) is presented. Finally, an experiment is conducted to study the operator behaviour with different C++ programs, suggesting their usefulness in the creation of complete test suites. The analysis includes a Web service (WS) library, one of the domains where this technique can prove useful, considering its challenging testing phase and that C++ is still a reference language for critical distributed systems WS.
PB Springer
SN 0003-4347
YR 2015
FD 2015-04
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/29798
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/29798
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 07-nov-2026