Publication Home — Rust Mutation Testing Research

Welcome to the information home for publications on Rust Mutation Testing research by the Software Testing Group in the School of Computer Science at The University of Sheffield.

Below you will find links to publications, as well as their respective replication packages.

Publications

• A Comprehensive Empirical and Theoretical Analysis of Batching Algorithms for Efficient, Safe, Parallel Mutation Analysis in Rust
  Zalán Lévai, Donghwan Shin, Phil McMinn
  ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Just Accepted, 2026
  [DOI 10.1145/3787851] [PDF] [REP-PAK]

• Batching Non-Conflicting Mutations for Efficient, Safe, Parallel Mutation Analysis in Rust
  Zalán Lévai, Phil McMinn
  International Conference on Software Testing (ICST), 2023
  [DOI 10.1109/ICST57152.2023.00014] [PDF] [REP-PAK]

Replication Packages

• Dynamic Mutation Scheduling: Highly Parallel, Efficient Evaluation of Mutations for Rust Programs through Program Splitting
  Zalán Lévai, Donghwan Shin, Phil McMinn
  

  Available at https://zenodo.org/records/18893406.

• A Comprehensive Empirical and Theoretical Analysis of Batching Algorithms for Efficient, Safe, Parallel Mutation Analysis in Rust
  Zalán Lévai, Donghwan Shin, Phil McMinn
  

  Available at https://zenodo.org/records/17955031.