Search based techniques and mutation analysis in automatic test case generation: A survey

Mutation testing is an effective adequacy criteria and has been researched upon a lot in the past decades, but lacks practical application due to its high cost. Mutation testing for test data generation has not been studied much. This paper is an up-to-date review of the technologies that have been applied with mutation testing for automatic generation of test data which is optimized regarding time, cost and code coverage. The survey reveals an increase in interest regarding the meta-heuristic techniques along with mutation testing.