Any experience with muJava in Thomson Reuters ?

I wonder if any developer or architect has experience with muJava (http://cs.gmu.edu/~offutt/mujava/) or other tool for mutation testing. We are interested in looking into this to improve the quality of our test harness and wondering if someone has some thoughts/experince to share.

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Andrew Gerber

I haven't used muJava, however for general testing purposes we've used [JUnit][1] and [Mockito][2] with good results. We've also used Spring's JUnit test runner to inject certain external dependencies at test time (this allows us to stub/mock out certain calls).

[1]: http://junit.sourceforge.net/
[2]: http://code.google.com/p/mockito/

Enrique Molinari

Yep, we use JUnit and Mockito too and coverage as the only metric for quality of the test (Clover). But I believe that metric is not enough. That is why muJava (I believe) is something more interesting about metrics for the quality of tests code.

Andrew Gerber

Ahhh I see. Yes, it looks very interesting

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