Talk:Mutation testing

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replies: text: As the editor that first removed the information, yes I believe it had become a list for different projects to drive traffic to their websites. I also believe it violates what Wikipedia is and is not, and the external link guidelines. --VVikingTalkEdits 16:05, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Links removed by the moderators 

message: The coupling effect is normally stated along the lines of
: "test data sets that detect simple types of faults are sensitive enough to detect more complex types of faults." 
As both Lipton and Offutt do in the following papers.
: http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~offutt/rsrch/papers/coupl.pdf
: https://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/edu/recommendation-systems/papers/Hints_on_Test_Data_Selection-1.pdf
A similar definition is used in all other papers I have read.
This is important as it implies that first order mutants may be used in place of real faults.
My edit has been reverted twice now. The article currently asserts that tools must support higher order mutants to "support the coupling effect", while as the offutt paper above explains, the coupling effect in fact implies the opposite - that first order mutations are sufficient. 
Could the person reverting supply references that support the current version? Current citation is to Lipton's 1978 paper which is not availble online. The reference I supplied above from the same author (also from 1978) uses the same definition as my edit. 
Oo d0l0b oo (talk) 21:08, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition of coupling effect 

message: "Verifying the tests" is an instance of the deeper philosophical problem named "Who watches the watchmen?". So I added an interdisciplinary link to Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? in the text of the article. --Antonielly (talk) 18:13, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who watches the watchmen? 

message: The introduction paragraph seems to be more or less copied from here:
http://www.mutationtest.net/twiki/bin/view/Resources/MutationAnalysis  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.232.250.50 (talk) 13:51, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for bringing up your concerns with this. Wikipedia takes copyright infringement seriously, and we appreciate being alerted to potential problems. In this case, it seems infringement would be reversed. The external site is dated 3 June 2007, with authorship credited to Giuseppe Di Guglielmo. The text in our article predates that. An editor with that username did contribute a link to the article in May, 2007, here, but there's no reason to presume he had authorization to release the text of the article to that site without permission of previous contributors. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:57, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright Infringement/Introduction Copied 

message: I would have expected that the original article by Lipton would be referenced.
80.121.4.71 (talk) 20:06, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference to original article 

message: The article starts with "Mutation testing is used to ..".  What is it in the first place?  Is it a tool, or methodology or what?
Normally, Wikipedia articles start with "Mutation testing is a ...."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.205.122.208 (talk) 08:57, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change the start of the article to be more clear what it "is" not what it "does" 

message: Mutation analysis is not a testing technique in the normal sense. It is used to evaluate the quality of software test suites rather than test programs. Hence, this line is incorrect. Rahul Gopinath June 9 2017  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Blufox (talk • contribs) 23:39, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove the line "Mutation testing is a form of white box testing" 

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