Mutation Testing in C#


Mutational testing in C# includes verifying the quality of a test suite in the active solution.

For this, use a tool called “VisualMutant”. It sets as an extension to the Visual Studio IDE. The following are the capabilities of a testing tool.

The following are the features of VisualMutant, which is a mutation test tool −

  • View modified code fragments in C#.
  • Run NUnit and XUnit tests on generated mutants
  • View details about any mutant right after the start of the mutation testing process
  • It gives results as mutation score.
  • Measure the quality of the test suite.
  • To create first-order mutants using built-in and custom mutation operators.
  • Provides information about passed and failed tests
  • You can also write the results to XML.

karthikeya Boyini
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Updated on: 30-Jul-2019

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