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FSE 2011

Inferring test results for dynamic software product lines

Bruno Barbieri Pontes Cafeo, Joost Noppen, Fabiano Cutigi Ferrari, Ruzanna Chitchyan, Awais Rashid

PDFDOI 10.1145/2025113.2025203dblp

Abstract

Due to the very large number of configurations that can typically be derived from a Dynamic Software Product Line (DSPL), efficient and effective testing of such systems have become a major challenge for software developers. In particular, when a configuration needs to be deployed quickly due to rapid contextual changes (e.g., in an unfolding crisis), time constraints hinder the proper testing of such a configuration. In this paper, we propose to reduce the testing required of such DSPLs to a relevant subset of configurations. Whenever a need to adapt to an untested configuration is encountered, our approach determines the most similar tested configuration and reuses its test results to either obtain a coverage measure or infer a confidence degree for the new, untested configuration. We focus on providing these techniques for inference of structural testing results for DSPLs, which is supported by an early prototype implementation.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{Cafeo-al:FSE11,
  author    = {Bruno Barbieri Pontes Cafeo and
               Joost Noppen and
               Fabiano Cutigi Ferrari and
               Ruzanna Chitchyan and
               Awais Rashid},
  title     = {Inferring test results for dynamic software product lines},
  booktitle = {FSE},
  pages     = {500--503},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2011},
}

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