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Abstract for Seminar
Talk: 30 minutes
Tool demo by Yue Jia: 15 minutes
Higher Order Mutation testing (HOM testing) is simply Mutation testing in which simply faults are combined to create Higher Order Mutants. This talk will briefly cover the history of Mutation Testing, considering why it has been traditionally a first order paradigm and giving motivations for a move to the higher order paradigm. The talk will show how Search Based Software Engineering (SBSE) can be used to seek out, from the impossibly large space of potential higher order mutants, those which may possess important and valuable properties that make them good at revealing faults that may otherwise go unnoticed. The talk will last 30 minutes, after which there will be a 15 minute demonstration of the publicly available tool, MilLu for mutation testing developed by Yue Jia. Finally, there will be 15 minutes for questions and discussion.