Parallel mutation testing for large scale systems
Abstract
Mutation testing is a valuable technique for measuring the quality of test suites in terms of detecting faults. However, one of its main drawbacks is its high computational cost. For this purpose, several approaches have been recently proposed to speed-up the mutation testing process by exploiting computational resources in distributed systems. However, bottlenecks have been detected when those techniques are applied in large-scale systems. This work improves the performance of mutation testing using large-scale systems by proposing a new load distribution algorithm, and parallelising different steps of the process. To demonstrate the benefits of our approach, we report on a thorough empirical evaluation, which analyses and compares our proposal with existing solutions executed in large-scale systems. The results show that our proposal outperforms the state-of-the-art distribution algorithms up to 35% in three different scenarios, reaching a reduction of the execution time of—at best—up to 99.66%.
Citation
Cerro Cañizares , P , Nunez , A , Filgueira , R & de Lara , J 2023 , ' Parallel mutation testing for large scale systems ' , Cluster Computing , vol. First online . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-023-04074-y
Publication
Cluster Computing
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1386-7857Type
Journal article
Description
Funding: Open Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature. This work was supported by the Spanish MINECO/FEDER project under Grants PID2021-122270OB-I00, TED2021-129381B-C21 and PID2019-108528RB-C22, the Comunidad de Madrid project FORTE-CM under Grant S2018/TCS-4314, Project S2018/TCS-4339 (BLOQUES-CM) co-funded by EIE Funds of the European Union and Comunidad de Madrid and the Project HPC-EUROPA3 (INFRAIA-2016-1-730897), with the support of the EC Research Innovation Action under the H2020 Programme.Collections
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