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the assumption behind mutation testing that programmers write programs close to correct, so real faults resemble small syntactic changes.

In software engineering, competent programmer hypothesis refers to the assumption behind mutation testing that programmers write programs close to correct, so real faults resemble small syntactic changes. This meaning comes from DeMillo (1978) in Computer.[1]

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DeMillo, R. A., Lipton, R. J., & Sayward, F. G. (1978). Hints on Test Data Selection: Help for the Practicing Programmer. Computer, 11(4), 34-41. https://doi.org/10.1109/c-m.1978.218136

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