PhD Students Working on Mutation Testing

Giuseppe Di Guglielmo

GiuseppeDiGuglielmo is a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science of University of Verona. He is working on automatic test pattern generation by extended finite state machine (EFSM).

Gordon Fraser

Gordon Fraser is a PhD student at Graz University of Technology, at the Institute for Software Technology. He is working on automated testing with model checkers. There are several methods that use mutation to create test cases with a model checker, all suffering from performance problems caused by the model checker. Gordon Fraser therefore searches for methods to detect equivalent and killed mutants as early as possible during the test case generation. The results are one part of the thesis, which can be found here.

Mercedes Merayo

Mercedes Merayo is a PhD student at the Facultad de Informática at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She is working on probabilistic finite state machines (PFSM), and considers mutation of PFSMs for test case generation.

Wuzhi Xu

Wuzhi Xu is a PhD student of Software Engineering at George Mason University. He is working on applying mutation analysis to XML message to test web services.

Ben Smith

Ben Smith is a Master's student at North Carolina State. He wrote the MuClipse plugin and works on making mutation testing more palatable to the typical software tester.

Stephan Weißleder

Stephan Weißleder is a PhD student at the Humboldt-University in Berlin, at the Department of Computer Science. He is working on model-based testing, especially on the automation of model-based testing based on UML state machines, class diagrams, and OCL expressions. During his work, he wrote the corresponding Eclipse-plugin ParTeG (Partition Test Generator. He uses mutation analysis to measure the fault detection ability of the generated test suites.