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- Title
Testing variability-intensive systems using automated analysis: an application to Android.
- Authors
Galindo, José; Turner, Hamilton; Benavides, David; White, Jules
- Abstract
Software product lines are used to develop a set of software products that, while being different, share a common set of features. Feature models are used as a compact representation of all the products (e.g., possible configurations) of the product line. The number of products that a feature model encodes may grow exponentially with the number of features. This increases the cost of testing the products within a product line. Some proposals deal with this problem by reducing the testing space using different techniques. However, a daunting challenge is to explore how the cost and value of test cases can be modeled and optimized in order to have lower-cost testing processes. In this paper, we present TESting vAriAbiLity Intensive Systems (TESALIA), an approach that uses automated analysis of feature models to optimize the testing of variability-intensive systems. We model test value and cost as feature attributes, and then we use a constraint satisfaction solver to prune, prioritize and package product line tests complementing prior work in the software product line testing literature. A prototype implementation of TESALIA is used for validation in an Android example showing the benefits of maximizing the mobile market share (the value function) while meeting a budgetary constraint.
- Subjects
GRADING (Commercial products); COMPUTER programming; COMPUTER software; COMPUTER software development; COMPUTER software quality control; DEFECT tracking (Computer software development); COMPUTER software industry
- Publication
Software Quality Journal, 2016, Vol 24, Issue 2, p365
- ISSN
0963-9314
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11219-014-9258-y