%0 Journal Article %T Test case Effectiveness of higher order Mutation Testing %A Shalini Kapoor %J International Journal of Computer Technology and Applications %D 2011 %I Technopark Publications %X Effectiveness means how good a test case is in finding faults. Traditional mutation testing considers First Order Mutants (FOM) created by injection of a single fault. We focus on Higher Order Mutants (HOM) and in particular on subsuming HOM. Higher Order Mutants contain more than one fault. We report in this paper that a strongly subsuming HOM is more effective as it kills all the FOM¡¯s from which it is constructed thereby reducing testing efforts without loss of effectiveness. %K Mutation Testing %K First order mutants %K Higher order mutants %U http://ijcta.com/documents/volumes/vol2issue5/ijcta2011020509.pdf