CWMT: A Concurrency based Acceleration Technique for Weak Mutation Testing

Although mutation testing has a strong fault detection capability, the high computation cost incurred by a huge number of mutants and a long testing period prevents mutation testing from being widely adopted in practice.

It can be observed that the bulk of codes in multiple mutants are repeatedly executed through an analysis of the mutation testing process. In this paper, we explore the improvement of mutation testing in terms of reducing its execution time and accordingly propose a concurrent weak mutation testing approach, which provides an optimal mechanism to removal of redundant executions by using the combination of concurrent controls and program synthesis techniques, aiming at shortening the execution time of mutation testing.