Code Defenders: Crowdsourcing Effective Tests and Subtle Mutants with a Mutation Testing Game
- Submitting institution
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The University of Sheffield
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 2446
- Type
- E - Conference contribution
- DOI
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10.1109/ICSE.2017.68
- Title of conference / published proceedings
- 2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
- First page
- 677
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- Issue
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- ISSN
- 1558-1225
- Open access status
- Not compliant
- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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3
- Research group(s)
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H - Testing
- Citation count
- 14
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Novel approach to generating good quality test suites by turning this process into a game in which testers compete against opponents that seed faults. Produced more effective tests than automated approaches. Won an ACM Distinguished Paper Award and the work was supported by a Royal Society Grant (RG160969). Tool has been used to teach software testing in universities including Passau (doi.org/10.1145/3287324.3287471), TU Delft, Madrid, George Mason, HU Berlin, and KAIST. It is also being used in the EU funded IMPRESS project (https://impress-project.eu).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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