Mutation 2015 - 10th International Workshop on Mutation Analysis (Mutation 2015)

Mutation is acknowledged as an important way to assess the fault-finding effectiveness of tests. Mutation testing has mostly been applied at the source code level, but more recently, related ideas have also been used to test artifacts described in a considerable variety of notations and at different levels of abstraction. Mutation ideas are used with requirements, formal specifications, architectural design notations, informal descriptions (e.g., use cases) and hardware. Mutation is now established as a major concept in software and systems V&V and uses of mutation are increasing.
Mutation 2015 is the 10th in the series of international workshops focusing on mutation analysis. The workshop will be held on April 13, 2015, in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation (ICST 2015). Accepted papers will be published as part of the ICST proceedings.
The goal of the Mutation workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss new and emerging trends in mutation analysis. We invite submissions of both full-length and short-length research papers as well as industry practice papers.
Topics include but are not limited to:
Mutation-based test adequacy criteria (theory or practical application).
Mutation-based test data generation.
Higher order mutation testing.
Novel mutation testing paradigms and applications.
Empirical studies of mutation testing.
Formal theoretical analysis of mutation testing.
Comparative studies (i.e., studies that compare mutation with other testing techniques).
Mutation testing tools.
Industrial experience with mutation testing.
New mutation systems for programming languages and for higher-level descriptive.
Increasing the efficiency of mutation.
Mutation for mobile, internet and cloud based systems.
Mutation for security and reliability.