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What Mutation Testing Frameworks Do When a Timeout Kills Them

Code: Megapixel99/assay-checks assay audits mutation harnesses: the scripts that deliberately break your code and check that a test notices.

  • Mutation testing frameworks may fail due to timeout signals
  • SIGKILL cannot be caught or handled by frameworks
  • Issue affects mutmut, cosmic-ray, Stryker, and PIT

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