Title:

Parallel Mutant Execution Techniques in Mutation Testing Process for Simulink Models, Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2017, nr 4

Creator:

Tung, Khuat Thanh ; Hanh, Le Thi My ; Binh, Nguyen Thanh

Subject and Keywords:

parallel processing ; software testing ; mutant execution ; mutation testing

Description:

Mutation testing – a fault-based technique for software testing – is a computationally expensive approach. One of the powerful methods to improve the performance of mutation without reducing effectiveness is to employ parallel processing, where mutants and tests are executed in parallel. This approach reduces the total time needed to accomplish the mutation analysis. This paper proposes three strategies for parallel execution of mutants on multicore machines using the Parallel Computing Toolbox (PCT) with the Matlab Distributed Computing Server. It aims to demonstrate that the computationally intensive software testing schemes, such as mutation, can be facilitated by using parallel processing. The experiments were carried out on eight different Simulink models. The results represented the efficiency of the proposed approaches in terms of execution time during the testing process.

Publisher:

National Institute of Telecommunications

Date:

2017, nr 4

Resource Type:

artykuł

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

ISSN 1509-4553, on-line: ISSN 1899-8852

Source:

Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology

Language:

ang

Rights Management:

Biblioteka Naukowa Instytutu Łączności