Design and Analysis of New Software Conformance Testing:NA Mutation Testing

Software conformance testing is the process of evaluating the accuracy of an implementation built to the requirements of a functional specification. Tedious conformance testing of software is not practical because variable input values and variable sequencing of inputs results in so many possible combinations of tests. Mutation testing is a technique for unit testing software that, although powerful, but computationally expensive. Recent engineering advances have given us techniques and algorithms for significantly reducing the cost of mutation testing. This paper demonstrates NA (Naveen-Ashish) Mutation to design a system that will approximate mutation.