Exclude

The Exclude element when placed within the Test element specifies which elements are to be excluded from mutation. This element may be used, for example, to restrict fuzzing to a specific area of code.

<DataModel name="Container">
  <String name="Index" value="123" />
  <Block name="ToFuzz" ref="ContainedDataModel">
</DataModel>

<Test name="Default">

  <!-- We are only fuzzing code associated with a specific index value -->
  <Exclude xpath="//Container/Index" />

  <!-- ... -->

</Test>

Both Include and Exclude are recursive and default to all when no targets are defined via the ref or xpath attributes.

The ref attribute transparently builds an xpath by appending // to the value supplied to the ref. The following two Excludes are functionally analogous for the above XML.

  <Exclude xpath="//Index" />
  <Exclude ref="Index" />

The ref attribute could match multiple values in different data models depending on how they are constructed. For targeted exclusion it is be best to use the xpath attribute.

Attributes

ref — Reference to a node to be excluded in testing
xpath — XPath to a node to be excluded in testing

Peach 3

Peach 2.3

Exclude

Attributes