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the problem that some mutants behave identically to the original program, so no test can kill them and mutation scores are distorted.

In software engineering, equivalent mutant problem refers to the problem that some mutants behave identically to the original program, so no test can kill them and mutation scores are distorted. This meaning comes from Madeyski (2014) in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.[1]

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Madeyski, L., Orzeszyna, W., Torkar, R., & Jozala, M. (2014). Overcoming the Equivalent Mutant Problem: A Systematic Literature Review and a Comparative Experiment of Second Order Mutation. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 40(1), 23-42. https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.2013.44

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