Hi Anton, which is the main differences with
http://code.google.com/p/mutalk/  ?  (if you happen to already know that
project)

Thanks,

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Anton Gulenko <
anton.gulenko at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:

> Dear Frank,
>
> The MethodEngine project is not an implementation of method wrappers.
> The focus is on automatic (but also controlled) generation of program
> mutations.
> In fact, the MethodEngine can USE an implementation of method wrappers
> to inject a mutation into the program. It could also use other
> mechanisms like directly compiling the modified code or using AOP.
>
> Best regards,
> Anton
>
> 2012/10/4 Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>:
> > On 4 October 2012 09:59, Anton Gulenko
> > <anton.gulenko at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:
> >> Dear Community,
> >>
> >> We would like to announce a new Squeak Community Project by the Software
> >> Architecture Group, Hasso-Plattner-Institute. Our new MutationEngine
> >> is a library
> >> to inject random modifications (mutations) in order to insert defects
> >> into Smalltalk
> >> programs and to make them crash. With that, you can automatically check
> and
> >> evaluate the effectivity of your debugging and testing approaches. The
> >> MutationEngine also provides a safe clean up at the end so that your
> Squeak
> >> system is not affected after a critical mutation.
> >
> > This looks very interesting. It's also about the third implementation
> > of method wrappers that I've seen (the others being the in-image
> > example, and ObjectsAsMethodsWrapper), and makes me wonder if we
> > shouldn't have a single best-of-everything library for what's clearly
> > a broadly useful tool.
> >
> > frank
> >
> >> A description, setup instructions and a tutorial can be found in the
> following
> >> Wiki article:
> >>
> https://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/trac/SqueakCommunityProjects/wiki/mutations
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Anton
> >>
> >
>
>


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