sofya.mutator
Interface MutationOperator

All Known Implementing Classes:

AFC, AOC, AOP, HFA, HFR, IOD, LCC, ROP

public interface MutationOperator

A mutation operator defines and implements a transformation that can be applied to a Java class file to create a "mutated" version of the class.

Version:

09/20/2005

Author:

Alex Kinneer

See Also:

Mutation, MutationGenerator, Mutator

Method Summary

java.lang.String	description() Gets the descriptive name for this mutation operator.
void	generateMutants(MutationTable mt, org.apache.bcel.generic.ClassGen cg) Generates mutations of a class and stores them to a mutation table; mutations are not actually applied.
java.lang.String	name() Gets the name of this mutation operator, in its abbreviated form.

Method Detail

generateMutants

void generateMutants(MutationTable mt,
                     org.apache.bcel.generic.ClassGen cg)

Generates mutations of a class and stores them to a mutation table; mutations are not actually applied.

Parameters:

mt - Mutation table that records the generated mutations.

cg - BCEL representation of the class for which mutations are being generated.

name

java.lang.String name()

Gets the name of this mutation operator, in its abbreviated form.

Returns:

The name of this mutation operator.

description

java.lang.String description()

Gets the descriptive name for this mutation operator.

Returns:

The descriptive name for this mutation operator.