Higher Order Mutation Testing

By Yue Jia, Mark Harman. Information and Software Technology, 2009

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Metallaxis‐FL: mutation‐based fault localization (2015, methodology): “Otherwise it is called a higher order mutant [16].”
Are mutants a valid substitute for real faults in software testing? (2014, background): “Prior research empirically showed the existence of the coupling effect between simple and complex mutants [17,28], but it is unclear whether real faults are coupled to simple mutants derived from commonly used mutation operators [18, 26, 29].”
Chapter Six - Mutation Testing Advances: An Analysis and Survey (2019, methodology): “be employed in order to search the space of all possible mutants for those that are subtle (mutants that are killed by only few test cases) [264], representative of all mutants [38], and realistic (both semantically and syntactically close to the original program) [72].”