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@inproceedings{Nuyens2024VST,
author = {Nuyens, Sien and Ceylan, Halil Ibrahim and
Kilincceker, Onur and Beyazit, Mutlu and
Demeyer, Serge},
booktitle = {Proceedings {VST} 2024 (IEEE Workshop on Validation,
Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests)},
pages = {215 -- 218},
title = {MUT4SLX: Extensions for Mutation Testing of Stateflow
Models},
year = {2024},
abstract = {Several experience reports illustrate that mutation
testing is capable of supporting a “shift-left”
testing strategy for software systems coded in
textual programming languages like C++. For graphical
modeling languages like Simulink, such experience
reports are missing, primarily because of a lack of
adequate tool support. In this paper, we extend
MUT4SLX, a tool for automatic mutant generation and
test execution of Simulink models based on block
diagrams. The tool is extended to support mutation
operators for Stateflow models, which, to the best of
our knowledge, are not supported by any other tool.
The current version of MUT4SLX has 8 operators that
are modeled after realistic faults (mined from an
industrial bug database) and are fast to inject (by
only replacing the parameter values). An experimental
evaluation on four sample projects shows that MUT4SLX
is capable of performing mutation analysis reasonably
fast, but mutant execution is always more
time-consuming.},
annote = {workshoppaper},
doi = {10.1109/SANER-C62648.2024.00035},
}