There was another product in this space, by the name of Agitator if I recall, and ultimately it failed because few actually have test suites that are complete enough to be candidates. Even Kent Beck doesn't care about coverage[1] and these frameworks aren't going to help anyone with much less than 100% test coverage.
At that point your tests might just be testing that the code does what the code does, not what it should do. Such bright people as yourself, in my opinion at least, could do a lot of useful work in static analysis, proving code correct instead of proving that a project's tests don't prove its code correct, which is a given. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/153234/how-deep-are-your-unit-tests/top answer On Sep 4, 2012 12:02 AM, "henry" <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been spending an unhealthy proportion of my free time working on a > new mutation testing system (http://pitest.org), mainly because it's been > quite good fun, but also because I wanted to address the issues I saw in > the previous generation of mutation testers - far too slow, difficult to > use, in the habit of not working when you add some innocent sounding > technology into the build. > > I'm beginning to build up a user base, but largely of developers that have > not previously tried mutation testing. I was wondering if anyone in this > group had any real world experience of using other mutation testers (e.g > http://jester.sourceforge.net/, http://jumble.sourceforge.net/) and how > this went, what problems were encountered etc. > > Thanks > > Henry > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Java Posse" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/JoR9CaBOi-MJ. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
