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@inproceedings{Parsai2015reftest,
author = {Ali Parsai and Alessandro Murgia and
Quinten David Soetens and Serge Demeyer},
booktitle = {XP2015 Workshop Proceedings},
pages = {8:1 -- 8:7},
publisher = {ACM},
title = {Mutation Testing as a Safety Net for Test Code
Refactoring},
year = {2015},
abstract = {Refactoring is an activity that improves the internal
structure of the code without altering its external
behavior. When performed on the production code, the
tests can be used to verify that the external
behavior of the production code is preserved.
However, when the refactoring is performed on test
code, there is no safety net that assures that the
external behavior of the test code is preserved. In
this paper, we propose to adopt mutation testing as a
means to verify if the behavior of the test code is
preserved after refactoring. Moreover, we also show
how this approach can be used to identify the part of
the test code which is improperly refactored.},
annote = {workshoppaper},
doi = {10.1145/2764979.2764987},
isbn = {978-1-4503-3409-9},
}