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A systematic review on search based mutation testing - Coggle Diagram
A systematic review on search based mutation testing
Review Plan
Research questions
What techniques of Search Based Software Testing have been proposed to mutation testing?
(a) To which stage of the mutation testing process has SBST been applied?
(b) Which meta-heuristics were used in mutation testing?
(c) What are the fitness functions utilized by the tech-
niques?
How many papers were published per year?
How many papers were published per country?
What programming languages are used in the experiments?
Inclusion and exclusion criteria
Control group of primary studies
Generation of the search string
Selection of sources
Conduction of the review
Search in databases
Filtering of repeated papers
Inclusion and exclusion criteria based on the title, abstract and keywords
Complete reading
Snowballing
Results
What techniques of Search Based Software Testing have been proposed to mutation testing? (a) To which stage of the mutation testing process has SBST been applied?
Fig. 7 - Bubble Chart (Metaheuristic X Approach)
It is evident Genetic Algorithm was the most widely used meta-heuristic. In most cases, meta-heuristics were used in mutation testing to support test data generation