TY  - JOUR
T1  - Mutagen4J : Effective Mutant Generation Tool for Java Programs
AU  - Jeon, Yiru 
AU  - Kim, Yunho 
AU  - Hong, Shin 
AU  - Kim, Moonzoo 
JO  - Journal of KIISE, JOK
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2016/1/14
DO  - 
KW  - software testing
KW  - mutation analysis
KW  - program mutation
KW  - mutation testing
KW  - java programs
AB  - Mutation analysis (or software mutation analysis) generates variants of a target program by injecting systematic code changes to the target program, and utilizes the variants to analyze the target program behaviors. Effective mutation analyses require adequate mutation operators that generate diverse variants for use in the analysis. However, the current mutation analysis tools for Java programs have limitations, since they support only limited types of mutation operators and do not support recent language features such as Java8. In this study, we present Mutagen4J, a new mutant generation tool for Java programs. Mutagen4J additionally supports mutation operators recently shown to generate various mutants and fully supports recent Java language features. The experimental results show that Mutagen4J generates useful mutants for analyses 2.3 times more than the existing Java mutation tools used for the study.