mbj
Visualizing mutant
First things first: mutant is amazing, thanks for making it!
The output is pretty well formed for terminal usage. The output is also pretty daunting if you don't know what you're looking at. A nice thing to have (in addition to the terminal output) would be some way to visualize the mutations in a browser. Presenting the information in a way that has the context of the surrounding code would make the output more understandable. Ideally it would just dump out some html files that you could then interact with locally, display with CI, or throw up on a server somewhere. Does that sound like something you'd be interested in adding to mutant?
If it sounds like a good addition, I'm totally willing to do the work–assuming it's not huge. But, I'm looking for a bit of guidance as to what is useful output. Do you have any idea what that visualization might look like? I've seen Stryker, which isn't bad. But I'm curious if there's a well established way of viewing mutation analysis that we could use here.
@joneshf This was discussed multiple times in the past. The conclusion is:
- Yes I support this
- The required APIs internally exist already, so production of the results is decoupled from rendering them
- I've no time to make it by myself
- Ideally simply start a PR and ask for review once you get something working and work with us through the review process
- For details find me in the mutation testing channel.
