'<h2 class=papertitle>Interface mutation to assess the adequacy of tests for components</h2> <p class=paperauthor>Sudipto Ghosh and Aditya P. Mathur, <span class=institution>Purdue University, USA</span> <p class=paperabstract> In this paper, we address the issue of assessing test adequacy for component and system testing. We propose interface mutation as a technique for assessing the adequacy of test sets. This technique utilizes the description of a component&acute;s interface description for generating interface mutants. We report data from experiments performed to evaluate the goodness of the mutation test adequacy criteria.  '