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+# Project Information
+
+## Introduction
+
+Milu is an efficient and flexible C mutation testing tool designed for
+both first order and highe order mutation testing. The name 'Milu' is
+from a deer composed of four other animals. It has a horse's head, a
+deer's antlers, a donkey's body and a cow's hooves.
+
+If you've downloaded Milu, please let me know. If you are using Milu as
+part of your research work (e.g. comparing your tool against it), then
+please cite the following paper.
+
+Yue Jia and Mark Harman. Milu: A Customizable, Runtime-Optimized Higher
+Order Mutation Testing Tool for the Full C Language TAIC PART'08,
+Windsor, UK, 29th-31st August 2008.
+
+## Get Source Code git clone https://github.com/yuejia/Milu 
+
+## Acknowledgement
+
+This project was supported by the EPSRC grant, EP/D050863(SEBASE) and
+the ORSAS.