As an ardent promoter of Mutation Testing, I sometimes get comments that it’s too slow to be of real use. This is always very funny as it also applies to Integration Testing, or GUI. Yet, this argument is only used againt Mutation Testing, though it cost nothing to setup, as opposed to the former. This will be the subject of another post. In this one, I will provide proposals on how to speed up mutation testing, or more precisely PIT, the Java Mutation Testing reference. Setting the bar