Mutation testing is a fault-injection-based technique to help testers generate test cases for detecting specific and predetermined types of faults.
From that, the results can help testers to define, within their testing scope, which tools or methodologies are indicated depending on the context or scope they will be applied to (see the "Lessons learned and future directions" section).
Sarraute et al. [42] discuss that attack graphs have been proposed as a tool to help testers understand the potential weaknesses in the target network, once that assessing network security is a complex and difficult activity.
Moreover, it will also help testers to devote time in exploratory test which requires manual efforts.
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The goal is to help the tester in the selection of a strategy.
A pre-defined structure was established to help the tester define new descriptors or new similarity functions.
ED is used here as preference criterion to help the tester in the selection of a solution.
Due to the possible large number of inputs and outputs, a tool that supports the automatic generation of these values can help the tester's task.
The idea of tools or frameworks that help the tester in the most insightful way during the entire process is an interesting possibility; future studies could study how to bring a better balance to the complexity of testing and the comprehension of the results.
