This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mobile Agents, MA 2002, held in Barcelona, Spain, in October 2002. The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions....

Extensive research and development has produce mutation tools for languages such as Fortran, Ada, C, and IDL; empirical evaluations comparing mutation with other test adequacy criteria; empirical evidence and theoretical justification for the coupling effect; and techniques for speeding up mutation testing using various types of high performance ar...