Getting Started with Mutation Testing

# Install Mutahunter package via GitHub. Python 3.11+ is required.
$ pip install https://github.com/codeintegrity-ai/mutahunter

# Work with GPT-4o on your repo
$ export OPENAI_API_KEY=your-key-goes-here

# Run Mutahunter on a specific file. 
$ mutahunter run --test-command "mvn clean test" --model "gpt-4o-mini" --source-path "src/main/java/com/example/BankAccount.java" --test-path "src/test/java/BankAccountTest.java"


2025-03-05 18:56:42,528 INFO: 'mvn clean test' - '/Users/taikorind/Desktop/mutahunter/examples/java_maven/logs/_latest/mutants/34a5d8a5_BankAccount.java'
2025-03-05 18:56:44,935 INFO: 🛡️ Mutant survived 🛡️

2025-03-05 18:56:44,936 INFO: 'mvn clean test' - '/Users/taikorind/Desktop/mutahunter/examples/java_maven/logs/_latest/mutants/183e6826_BankAccount.java'
2025-03-05 18:56:47,308 INFO: 🗡️ Mutant killed 🗡️

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2024-07-29 12:31:22,045 INFO:
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📊 Overall Mutation Coverage 📊
🎯 Mutation Coverage: 57.14% 🎯
🦠 Total Mutants: 7 🦠
🛡️ Survived Mutants: 3 🛡️
🗡️ Killed Mutants: 4 🗡️
🕒 Timeout Mutants: 0 🕒
🔥 Compile Error Mutants: 1 🔥
💰 Total Cost: \$0.00060 USD 💰

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2025-03-05 18:56:54,689 INFO: Mutation Testing Ended. Took 29s

Examples

Go to the examples directory to see how to run Mutahunter on different programming languages:

Check Java Example to see some interesting LLM-based mutation testing examples.

• Java Example