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 modi?ed 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 ?rst-order mutants using built-in and custom mutation operators.
• Provides information about passed and failed tests
• You can also write the results to XML.