| 15 August 2006
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Random Testing Makes A Comeback
Many years ago the idea came up to randomly insert bugs into a program,
and see whether the test process being used would detect them.
If the test process did, that would be good news because you would know that
that class of defect would be detected.
The was called "be-bugging" and "error seeding" and after a time finally got renamed to "mutation testing".
That was all decades ago.
But it looks like this idea's back, as witness these two events:
It used to be said that mutation testing was never going to succeed because
the machine requirements were too great, but that doesn't seem to
be an issue any longer.
It seems an old idea (a good idea) has been resurrected!
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