Analogies and differences between mutation operators for WS-BPEL 2.0 and other languages

Juan Boubeta-Puig; Inmaculada Medina-Bulo; Antonio García-Domínguez

doi:10.1109/ICSTW.2011.52

Analogies and differences between mutation operators for WS-BPEL 2.0 and other languages

Juan Boubeta-Puig^*, Inmaculada Medina-Bulo, Antonio García-Domínguez

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College of Engineering and Physical Sciences

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Abstract

Applying mutation testing to a program written in a certain language requires that a set of mutation operators is defined for that language. The mutation operators need to adequately cover the features of that language in order to be effective. In this work, we evaluate qualitatively the operators defined for the Web Services Business Process Execution Language 2.0 (WS-BPEL) and study the differences and similarities between WS-BPEL and other languages. We review the existing operators for several structured and object oriented general-purpose programming languages, and for several domain-specific languages. Results confirm that WSBPEL is very different from other languages, as half of the mutation operators for this language are equivalent to those of other languages. Our study concludes that the set of WS-BPEL mutation operators can be improved.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 4th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation Workshops, ICSTW 2011
Pages	398-407
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSTW.2011.52
Publication status	Published - 18 Aug 2011
Event	4th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation Workshops, ICSTW 2011 - Berlin, Germany Duration: 21 Mar 2011 → 25 Mar 2011

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Conference	4th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation Workshops, ICSTW 2011
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Berlin
Period	21/03/11 → 25/03/11

Keywords

Mutation analysis
Mutation operators
Test-suite effectiveness
Testing
Web services
WS-BPEL

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Boubeta-Puig, J, Medina-Bulo, I & García-Domínguez, A 2011, Analogies and differences between mutation operators for WS-BPEL 2.0 and other languages. in Proceedings - 4th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation Workshops, ICSTW 2011., 5954439, pp. 398-407, 4th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation Workshops, ICSTW 2011, Berlin, Germany, 21/03/11. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSTW.2011.52

Analogies and differences between mutation operators for WS-BPEL 2.0 and other languages. / Boubeta-Puig, Juan; Medina-Bulo, Inmaculada; García-Domínguez, Antonio.
Proceedings - 4th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation Workshops, ICSTW 2011. 2011. p. 398-407 5954439.

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