sofya.mutator.selectors
Class RandomIDMutationSelector

java.lang.Object
  sofya.mutator.selectors.RandomIDMutationSelector

All Implemented Interfaces:

MutationSelector

public class RandomIDMutationSelector
extends java.lang.Object
implements MutationSelector

Mutation selector that randomly selects by ID.

Version:

05/12/2006

Author:

Alex Kinneer

Constructor Summary

RandomIDMutationSelector(int randCount)
Creates a new mutation selector to select a given number of mutations randomly by ID.

Method Summary

Mutation.Variant	getVariant(Mutation mutation) Gets the selected variant.
boolean	isSelected(Mutation mutation) Reports whether a mutation is selected.
void	setMutationCount(int mutationCount) Sets the total number of mutations that may be passed to this selector (typically the number of mutations in a mutation table).

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

RandomIDMutationSelector

public RandomIDMutationSelector(int randCount)

Creates a new mutation selector to select a given number of mutations randomly by ID.

Parameters:

randCount - Number of IDs to be selected at random.

Method Detail

isSelected

public boolean isSelected(Mutation mutation)

Description copied from interface: MutationSelector

Reports whether a mutation is selected.

Specified by:

isSelected in interface MutationSelector

Parameters:

mutation - Mutation to be checked for selection.

Returns:

true if this selector implements a selection criteria that the given mutation meets, false otherwise.

getVariant

public Mutation.Variant getVariant(Mutation mutation)

Description copied from interface: MutationSelector

Gets the selected variant.

Some mutation operators, such as the arithmetic operator change (AOP), generate multiple variants at a single location.

Specified by:

getVariant in interface MutationSelector

Parameters:

mutation - Mutation for which to retrieve the selected variant.

Returns:

The selected mutation variant.

setMutationCount

public void setMutationCount(int mutationCount)

Description copied from interface: MutationSelector

Sets the total number of mutations that may be passed to this selector (typically the number of mutations in a mutation table).

This is useful for some selectors, such as those that implement random selection criteria.

Specified by:

setMutationCount in interface MutationSelector

Parameters:

mutationCount - Total number of mutations from which this selector may select.