METHOD FOR EVALUATING THE QUALITY OF A COMPUTER PROGRAM

摘要

The invention relates to a method for evaluating the quality of a computer program that, during execution, the input data and the output data of an integrated circuit are influenced. The method comprises the following steps: (a) preparing a mutated integrated circuit which is obtained by incorporating one or more functional mutations into the (unmutated) integrated circuit; (b) influencing the input data and the output data of the mutated integrated circuit during which the output data of the mutated integrated circuit are recorded; (c) comparing the hereby obtained output data obtained of the mutated integrated circuit with the output data that are expected when influencing the unmutated integrated circuit by the computer program, and; (d) evaluating the quality of the computer program on basis of the comparison results.