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@inproceedings{Parsai2020soheal,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
author = {Parsai, Ali and Demeyer, Serge},
booktitle = {Proceedings {ICSE Workshops 2020} {IEEE/ACM 42nd
International Conference on Software Engineering
Workshops}},
pages = {742 -- 745},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
title = {Mutant Density: A Measure of Fault-Sensitive
Complexity},
year = {2020},
abstract = {Software code complexity is a well-studied property
to determine software component health. However, the
existing code complexity metrics do not directly take
into account the fault-proneness aspect of the code.
We propose a metric called mutant density where we
use mutation as a method to introduce artificial
faults in code, and count the number of possible
mutations per line. We show how this metric can be
used to perform helpful analysis of real-life
software projects.},
annote = {workshoppaper},
doi = {10.1145/3387940.3392210},
isbn = {9781450379632},
}