2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops

In this scenario, the adoption of Mutation Analysis increasingly demands the definition of specific mutation operators for these new features. It is desirable that these new operators can be added to the mutation environment for reproducing those new errors that appear over time.The main contributions of this paper are:(1) the development of a hierarchical architecture for mutation operators that minimizes the dependence of external libraries and that facilitates the implementation of new operators;(2) BacterioWeb, a new mutation tool that performs all the mutation tasks in the web;(3) some mutation operators specifically designed for reproducing some common context-aware errors reported by mobile applications developers;(4) a comparison of the proposed architecture with those in other tools.