Section: New Software and Platforms

Descartes

Keywords: Software testing - Mutation analysis

Functional Description: Descartes evaluates the capability of your test suite to detect bugs using extreme mutation testing.

Descartes is a mutation engine plugin for PIT which implements extreme mutation operators as proposed in the paper Will my tests tell me if I break this code?.

• Participants: Oscar Luis Vera Perez, Benjamin Danglot, Benoit Baudry and Martin Monperrus

• Partner: KTH Royal Institute of Technology

• Contact: Benoit Baudry

• Publications: Descartes: a PITest engine to detect pseudo-tested methods - Tool Demonstration - A Comprehensive Study of Pseudo-tested Methods

• URL: https://github.com/STAMP-project/pitest-descartes