Mutation-Driven Generation of Unit Tests and Oracles

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

• Publication date

  2010-07-12

• Fields of study

  Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1145/1831708.1831728
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