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Jean-Marie Mottu, Benoit Baudry, and Yves Le Traon (2006)
Mutation Analysis Testing for Model Transformations
In: proceedings of the European Conference on Model Driven Architecture (ECMDA 06), Bilbao, Spain.
In MDE, model transformations should be efficiently tested so that
it may be used and reused safely. Mutation analysis is an efficient
technique to evaluate the quality of test data, and has been extensively
studied both for procedural and object-oriented languages. In this
paper, we study how it can be adapted to model oriented programming.
Since no model transformation language has been widely accepted today,
we propose generic fault models that are related to the model transformation
process. First, we identify abstract operations that constitute this
process: model navigation, model’s elements filtering, output model
creation and input model modification. Then, we propose a set of
specific mutation operators which are directly inspired from these
operations. We believe that these operators are meaningful since
a large part of the errors in a transformation are due to the manipulation
of complex models regardless of the concrete implementation language.