Infection comparisons

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Infection 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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Infection head-to-head

• Infection vs ArcMutate
• Infection vs PIT
• Infection vs Stryker Mutator
• CRInfection vs Cosmic Ray
• DMInfection vs Dextool Mutate
• MInfection vs Mutatest
• MInfection vs Mutant

Infection vs each of them

#	Tool	Free plan	Paid from	Supported languages	Test frameworks	Incremental analysis	Parallel execution	Mutation quality gate	Score
4	Infection	Yes	None	PHP	PHPUnit, PhpSpec, Codeception, Testo	Yes	Yes	Yes	7.4
1	ArcMutate	Yes	—	Java, Kotlin, Groovy	JUnit 4, JUnit 5, Spring Test, Mockito, MockK, Robolectric	Yes	Yes	Yes	9.8
2	PIT	Yes	None	Java and JVM bytecode	JUnit 3, JUnit 4, TestNG; JUnit 5 via plugin	Yes	Yes	Yes	8.2
3	Stryker Mutator	Yes	None	JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, Scala	Cucumber, Jasmine, Jest, Karma, Mocha, Tap, Vitest, command runner	Yes	Yes	Yes	7.7
5	CRCosmic Ray	Yes	None	Python 3	unittest, pytest, nose	Yes	Yes	—	7.1
6	DMDextool Mutate	Yes	None	C, C++	GoogleTest, CTest, Makefile	Yes	Yes	—	6.9
7	MMutatest	Yes	None	Python	pytest	—	Yes	Yes	6.8
8	MMutant	Yes	$30/mo	Ruby	RSpec, Minitest, Test::Unit	Yes	Yes	—	6.7

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