Are mutants a valid substitute for real faults in software testing?

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“Are mutants a valid substitute for real faults in software testing?” by René Just, Darioush Jalali, Laura Inozemtseva, Michael D. Ernst, Reid Holmes, and Gordon Fraser. In Proceedings of the Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), (Hong Kong), November 18-20 2014, pp. 654-665. ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award.

BibTeX entry:

@inproceedings{JustJIEHF2014b,
   author = {Ren{\'e} Just and Darioush Jalali and Laura Inozemtseva and
	Michael D. Ernst and Reid Holmes and Gordon Fraser},
   title = {Are mutants a valid substitute for real faults in software
	testing?},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the Symposium on the Foundations of
	Software Engineering (FSE)},
   pages = {654--665},
   address = {Hong Kong},
   month = {November~18--20},
   year = {2014},
   note = {{\bf ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award}}
}

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