X-MuT: A Tool for the Generation of XSLT Mutants

Author

Lonetti, Francesca ; Marchetti, Eda

Author_Institution

Consiglio Naz. delle Ric., Ist. di Scienza e Tecnol. dell´´Inf. A. Faedo, Pisa, Italy

fYear

2010

fDate

Sept. 29 2010-Oct. 2 2010

Firstpage

280

Lastpage

285

Abstract

Mutation testing has been historically applied to many programming languages as a white box testing technique. In this paper, we propose a set of mutation operator classes for XSLT language, and we implement them into a tool called X-MuT. The tool automatically generates the set of mutants and provides facilities to run a given test suite on the mutants and to compute the test suite effectiveness in terms of mutation score. We provide an example of X-MuT application to evaluate the effectiveness of an existing test suite for a XSLT style sheet transforming the standard MARCXML to the Dublin Core format.

Keywords

XML; object-oriented programming; program testing; software tools; Dublin core format; MARCXML; X-MuT; XSLT language; XSLT mutants; mutation operator classes; mutation testing; programming languages; white box testing; Communities; Computer integrated manufacturing; Fault detection; Java; Testing; Web sites; XML; Fault detection effectiveness; Mutation operators; Mutation testing; XSLT;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC), 2010 Seventh International Conference on the

Conference_Location

Porto

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8539-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4241-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/QUATIC.2010.52

Filename

5655569