IncLing: Efficient Product-Line Testing Using Incremental Pairwise Sampling
A software product line comprises a family of software products that share a common set of features. It enables customers to compose software systems from a large space of features. Testing every product of a product line individually is often infeasible due to the exponential number of possible products in the number of features. Several approaches have been proposed to restrict the number of products to be tested by sampling a subset of products achieving sufficient combinatorial interaction coverage. However, existing sampling algorithms do not scale well to large product lines, as they require a considerable amount of time to generate the samples. Moreover, samples are not available until a sampling algorithm completely terminates. As testing time is usually limited, we propose an incremental approach of product sampling for pairwise interaction testing (called IncLing), which enables developers to generate samples on demand in a step-wise incremental way. Furthermore, IncLing uses heuristics to efficiently achieve pairwise interaction coverage with a reasonable number of products. We evaluated IncLing by comparing it against existing sampling algorithms using feature models of different sizes. The results of our approach indicate potential improvement in the efficiency of product-line testing.
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13:30 30mTalk | IncLing: Efficient Product-Line Testing Using Incremental Pairwise Sampling GPCE Mustafa Al-Hajjaji Magdeburg University, Sebastian Krieter Magdeburg University, Thomas Thüm University of Ulm, Malte Lochau TU Darmstadt, Gunter Saake Magdeburg University | ||
14:00 30mTalk | Towards Scalable Configuration Testing in Variable Software GPCE Valentin Rothberg Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Christian Dietrich , Andreas Ziegler Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Daniel Lohmann Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg Pre-print Media Attached | ||
14:30 15mTalk | Towards a Software Product Line of Trie-Based Collections GPCE Pre-print Media Attached | ||
14:45 15mTalk | Tool Demo: Testing Configurable Systems with FeatureIDE GPCE Mustafa Al-Hajjaji Magdeburg University, Jens Meinicke Magdeburg University, Sebastian Krieter Magdeburg University, Reimar Schröter Magdeburg University, Thomas Thüm University of Ulm, Thomas Leich Harz University of Applied Sciences, Germany, Gunter Saake Magdeburg University |