An Empirical based Mutation Testing through Effective Test Data

Mutation testing is a powerful but complicated and computationallyexpensive testing method. Testing of object-oriented software has a number of features that make it different from conventional software testing. Traditional testing methods are not very effective in testing object oriented software. The factors like inheritance, encapsulation, polymorphism, which are the specialized phenomena of object- oriented software bring in the point of different Mutation testing is a fault based testing technique that has the advantage of easy automation, and can check the thoroughness of testing performed using other testing approaches. Mutation operators are an important consideration while designing the mutation testing methodologies. In this paper, we designed set of new mutation operators.Our experimentation reveals that our approach is able to detect faults and is not detected by traditional code-based testing approaches.