Mutant density

Subtitle:a measure of fault-sensitive complexity

Software code complexity is a well-studied property to determine software component health. However, the existing code complexity metrics do not directly take into account the fault-proneness aspect of the code. We propose a metric called mutant density where we use mutation as a method to introduce artificial faults in code, and count the number of possible mutations per line. We show how this metric can be used to perform helpful analysis of real-life software projects.

ISBN:978-1-4503-7963-2

Publication year:2020

Keywords:P2 Proceeding

Accessibility:Open