The fundamental premise of mutation was stated as

Posted: January 7th, 2022

The fundamental premise of mutation was stated as: “In practice, if

the software contains a fault, there will usually be a set of mutants

that can be killed only by a test case that also detects that fault.”

(a) Give a brief argument in support of the fundamental mutation

premise.

(b) Give a brief argument against the fundamental mutation

premise.