A Method for Prioritizing Integration Testing in Software Product Lines Based on Feature Model

被引:4
作者
Akbari, Zahra [1 ]
Khoshnevis, Sedigheh [2 ]
Mohsenzadeh, Mehran [1 ]
机构
[1] Islamic Azad Univ, Dept Comp Engn, Sci & Res Branch, Tehran 009821, Iran
[2] Islamic Azad Univ, Dept Comp Engn, Shahr E Qods Branch, Tehran 009821, Iran
关键词
Software product line engineering; integration testing; feature model; pruning; separation of concerns;
D O I
10.1142/S0218194017500218
中图分类号
TP18 [人工智能理论];
学科分类号
081104 ; 0812 ; 0835 ; 1405 ;
摘要
Testing activities for software product lines should be different from that of single software systems, due to significant differences between software product line engineering and single software system development. The cost of testing in software product line is generally higher compared with single software systems; therefore, there should exist a certain balance between cost, quality of final products, and the time of performing testing activities. As decreasing testing cost is an important challenge in software product line integration testing, the contribution of this paper is in introducing a method for early integration testing in software product lines based on feature model (FM) by prioritizing test cases in order to decrease integration testing costs in SPLs. In this method, we focus on reusing domain engineering artifacts and prioritized selection and execution of integration test cases. It also uses separation of concerns and pruning techniques on FMs to help prioritize the test cases. The method shows to be promising when applied to some case studies in the sense that it decreases the costs of performing integration test by about 82% and also detects about 44% of integration faults in domain engineering.
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页码:575 / 600
页数:26
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