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Mutation Operators for Google Query Language

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Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2020)

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Nowadays the technology is being created and adapted to satisfy the user necessities. Among them, obtaining information as fast as possible. Google knows how to meet this demand developing and offering new services that provide the requested information quickly. Google technology can be used to develop products using the Google App Engine (GAE). In order to manipulate the data, GAE uses the Google Query Language (GQL), a SQL-like language, that has been designed to provide a solution to the necessity of having super-fast access to data warehouses. The quality of the developed products is essential and therefore, testing them is mandatory. In this paper, we propose the use of mutation testing to detect faults during the development of applications that use GQL. With this goal, we introduce a set of specific mutation operators for GQL.

Paper partially funded by the Spanish MINECO-FEDER (grant number DArDOS, TIN2015-65845-C3-1-R, grant number FAME RTI2018-093608-B-C31 and RTI2018-093608-B-C33); the Region of Madrid (grant number FORTE-CM, S2018/TCS-4314).

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    https://github.com/lorgut/ACIIDS2020/tree/master/Outputs.

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  1. UCASE Research Group, University of Cádiz, Puerto Real, Spain

    Lorena Gutiérrez-Madroñal & Inmaculada Medina-Bulo

  2. Design and Testing of Reliable Systems Research Group, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Mercedes G. Merayo

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  1. Kielce University of Technology, Kielce, Poland

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  2. Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Marcin Pietranik

  3. Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Marek Krótkiewicz

  4. King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand

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Gutiérrez-Madroñal, L., Medina-Bulo, I., Merayo, M.G. (2020). Mutation Operators for Google Query Language. In: Sitek, P., Pietranik, M., Krótkiewicz, M., Srinilta, C. (eds) Intelligent Information and Database Systems. ACIIDS 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1178. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3380-8_31

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