Wednesday, August 14, 2013

About Mutation Testing

What is Mutation Testing?

In this digital world, we can't imagine a world with out computer,mobile devices, internet and the more importantly the software applications.

To ensure the bug free applications, we are investing heavily on testing or validating the features before publishing it for end user. But, is that good enough? The answer is no. Because, we follow the automated testing is just for the process without considering the real purpose of that.

So, there is a need of validating/checking the quality of those automated test cases isn't it?

So the way to check and improve the quality of such test cases is through integrating Mutation testing in your project development.

Why Mutation Testing?

It helps us to identify the quality of test cases(by generating a report of where and how we can improve the quality) and the beautiful part is, we no need to modify either our actual code or test cases. 

Pitest(https://pitest.org/) is an easy and powerful way of achieving the above said Mutation testing.

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