decreasing the number of generated mutants and reducing the cost of mutation testing are the main goals of this study. Design …

-less (equivalent). Equivalent mutants are one of the major costs of mutation testing and the identification of equivalent and effect … considered as the strategic locations for the mutation testing. Findings In order to evaluate the proposed method, an extensive … series of mutation testing experiments have been conducted on a set of traditional benchmark programs using MuJava tool set …

is mutation testing. One of the main drawbacks of mutation testing is its computational cost. The research problem of …