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Exploring Mutation Testing for Teaching Introductory Programming Vasconcelos, Pedro mutation testing programming education This paper proposes the use of introductory programming assignments based on mutation testing where students are asked to write tests rather than code. We believe such exercises can be used to teach code reading skills before students could write the corresponding programs on their own. Furthermore, feedback for such exercises can be automatically generated using testing tools. We have extended an existing web-based system for programming exercises with such mutation testing assignments and show some example use cases. This is on-going work that has yet to be validated in the classroom. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik Pedro Vasconcelos 2025 Is Part Of OASIcs, Volume 133, 6th International Computer Programming Education Conference (ICPEC 2025) InProceedings Text doc-type:ResearchArticle publishedVersion application/pdf doi:10.4230/OASIcs.ICPEC.2025.1 urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-240319 https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ICPEC.2025.1 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode