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Mutation testing has been used mostly at the unit level. To support its application few tools have been developed and used, mainly in the academic environment. Interface Mutation has been proposed aiming at applying mutation at the integration level. A tool named Proteum/IM was implemented to support such criterion. With the definition of the Interface Mutation criterion the tester has the possibility of applying mutation testing concepts throughout the software development. It seems mandatory to have a single, integrated environment that would support mutation-based unit and integration testing. Such environment, which provides facilities to investigate low-cost and incremental testing strategies, is the focus of this paper.
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Delamaro, M.E., Maldonado, J.C., Vincenzi, A.M.R. (2001). Proteum/IM 2.0: An Integrated Mutation Testing Environment. In: Wong, W.E. (eds) Mutation Testing for the New Century. The Springer International Series on Advances in Database Systems, vol 24. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5939-6_17
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