Boundary-Mutation Testing for Pattern-Based Secret Detection: A Rule-Level Method and Cross-Scanner Evaluation

arXiv:2609.02983 · cs.CR, cs.SE · Submitted 2026-09-02 · Read on arXiv

cs.CR, cs.SE

Submitted: 2026-09-02

Updated: 2026-09-02

Comments: 17 pages, 10 figures

Code: https://github.com/Shweta-Mishra-ai/github-autopilot

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Hallucination — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
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• Transferability — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

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