Mutation Testing Techniques in Software Testing: A Review

Dushyant Singh, Parulpreet Singh

Abstract: Mutation testing is regarded as a dominant scheme to quantify the quality of test suite. There are two stages for executing mutation testing. The initial stage includes the alteration of code into various instances known as mutants. The compilation of these mutants is done later on. A mutation engine or manual way is utilized to produce and compile the mutation in automatic manner. The various schemes which are based on the mutation testing are reviewed in this paper.

Keywords: Mutation Testing, Genetic Algorithm, Manual Testing