Systematic Review on Software Product Line Testing

Lamancha, Beatriz Pérez; Polo, Macario; Piattini, Mario

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-29578-2_4

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“…Combinatorial Interaction Testing (CIT) is one of the most common and promising test configuration selection approach employed to reduce the number of selected products hence the test configuration in SPL testing (Lamancha et al, 2013). The goal of test configuration selection is to reduce the set of feature combinations to a reasonable but representative set of products achieving a high coverage of feature interactions.…”

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Combinatorial Interaction Testing of Software Product Lines: A Mapping Study

Sahid¹,

Sultan²,

Ghani³

et al. 2016

Journal of Computer Science

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Software Product Line (SPL) is a software engineering paradigm that is inspired by the concept of reusability of common features, formulated for different software product. Complete testing on entire SPL is known to be unfeasible, due to the very large number of possible products to be produced, configured using a subset or all possible features in the SPL. This paper reports a Systematic Mapping Study (SMS) of relevant primary studies as the evidence on the application of Combinatorial Interaction Testing (CIT) for SPL. In CIT, one has to construct a covering array, which is a set of configurations having valid feature combinations and every combination of t features appears at least once in the array. This is also known as t-wise testing. By following the systematic mapping study guidelines, we have selected and filtered 44 primary studies for review. The most prominent CIT techniques in aiding SPL testing are those based on greedy algorithms followed by meta-heuristics algorithms. The motivation of SPL testing is to anticipate the feature interaction problem, in which the majority of the works were reported to leverage test configuration selection approach, while some employed test configuration prioritization approach. Numerous works have been reported, but only few works managed to demonstrate their scalability, as most primary studies only deal with low strength (t is less than 4) of t-wise testing.

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“…A systematic review by Lamancha et al (2013) reported that works have been done on SPL testing on different testing phases which includes unit testing, integration testing and functional testing. Multitudes of works have been reported on functional testing and variability testing by exploiting UML models and use cases.…”

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Combinatorial Interaction Testing of Software Product Lines: A Mapping Study

Sahid¹,

Sultan²,

Ghani³

et al. 2016

Journal of Computer Science

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“…There have been several attempts to provide a structured discipline for testing SPLs. However, it appears from recent surveys [4,5,8,7] that several fundamental approaches to modelbased testing (based on finite state machines and labeled transition systems) are not yet fully adapted to and adopted in this domain. The theory of Input-Output Conformance (IOCO) [11], is one such fundamental approach, which uses labeled transition systems for model-based testing.…”

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Input-output conformance testing based on featured transition systems

Beohar

Mousavi

2014

Proceedings of the 29th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

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We extend the theory of input-output conformance testing to the setting of software product lines. In particular, we allow for input-output featured transition systems to be used as the basis for generating test suites and test cases. We introduce refinement operators both at the level of models and at the level of test suites that allow for projecting them into a specific product configuration (or a product sub-line). We show that the two sorts of refinement are consistent and lead to the same set of test-cases.

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“…In addition, several testing techniques have been adapted to SPLs, of which [19,14,18,10] provide recent overviews. Hitherto, most fundamental approaches to formal conformance testing [4] have not been adapted sufficiently to the SPL setting.…”

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Spinal Test Suites for Software Product Lines

Beohar

Mousavi

2014

Electron. Proc. Theor. Comput. Sci.

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A major challenge in testing software product lines is efficiency. In particular, testing a product line should take less effort than testing each and every product individually. We address this issue in the context of input-output conformance testing, which is a formal theory of model-based testing. We extend the notion of conformance testing on input-output featured transition systems with the novel concept of spinal test suites. We show how this concept dispenses with retesting the common behavior among different, but similar, products of a software product line.

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Systematic Review on Software Product Line Testing

Cited by 15 publications

References 42 publications

Combinatorial Interaction Testing of Software Product Lines: A Mapping Study

Combinatorial Interaction Testing of Software Product Lines: A Mapping Study

Input-output conformance testing based on featured transition systems

Spinal Test Suites for Software Product Lines

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