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Cosmic Ray comparisons

Free#5 of 25 in Mutation Testing Tools

Cosmic Ray is compared head-to-head with ArcMutate, PIT and Stryker Mutator and more: 7 head-to-heads in Mutation Testing Tools, each with the specs and prices we checked.

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Cosmic Ray head-to-head

Cosmic Ray vs each of them

#ToolFree planPaid fromSupported languagesTest frameworksIncremental analysisParallel executionMutation quality gateScore
5Cosmic RayYesNonePython 3unittest, pytest, noseYesYes—7.1
1ArcMutateYes—Java, Kotlin, GroovyJUnit 4, JUnit 5, Spring Test, Mockito, MockK, RobolectricYesYesYes9.8
2PITYesNoneJava and JVM bytecodeJUnit 3, JUnit 4, TestNG; JUnit 5 via pluginYesYesYes8.2
3Stryker MutatorYesNoneJavaScript, TypeScript, C#, ScalaCucumber, Jasmine, Jest, Karma, Mocha, Tap, Vitest, command runnerYesYesYes7.7
4InfectionYesNonePHPPHPUnit, PhpSpec, Codeception, TestoYesYesYes7.4
6Dextool MutateYesNoneC, C++GoogleTest, CTest, MakefileYesYes—6.9
7MutatestYesNonePythonpytest—YesYes6.8
8MutantYes$30/moRubyRSpec, Minitest, Test::UnitYesYes—6.7

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