The mutation method assesses test quality by examining the ability of a test set to distinguish syntactic deviations representing specific types of faults from the program under test. This paper describes an empirical study performed to evaluate the effectiveness of object-oriented (OO) test strategies using the mutation method. The test sets for the experimental system are generated according ...

Code profiling is an essential activity to increase software quality. It is commonly employed in a wide variety of tasks, such as supporting program comprehension, determining execution bottlenecks, and assessing code coverage by unit tests. SPY is an innovative framework to easily build profilers and visualize profiling information. The profiling information is obtained by inserting dedicated ...

This study addresses the optimization of node redeployment coverage in underwater wireless sensor networks. Given that nodes could easily become invalid under a poor environment and the large scale of underwater wireless sensor networks, an underwater sensor network redeployment algorithm was developed based on wolf search. This study is to apply the wolf search algorithm combined with crowded ...

Branch testing, for example, seeks to cover all branches in a piece of code, but when it is performed, as well as branches, other program elements, such as statements or puses, will necessarily be covered. The contemporaneous coverage of these other elements is referred to as “collateral coverage”. An understanding of the extent of the collateral coverage of the various program elements that is...