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Towards automated test refactoring for software product lines

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Mustafa Al-Hajjaji,

Sandro Schulze,

Thomas LeichAuthors Info & Claims

SPLC '18: Proceedings of the 22nd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference - Volume 1

Pages 143 - 148

https://doi.org/10.1145/3233027.3233040

Published: 10 September 2018 Publication History

Abstract

In practice, organizations often rely on the clone-and-own approach to reuse and customize existing systems. While increasing maintenance costs encourage some organizations to adopt their development processes towards more systematic reuse, others still avoid migrating to a reusable platform. Based on our experiences, a barrier preventing the adoption of software product lines is the fear of introducing new and more problematic bugs---during the migration or later on. We are aware of several works that automate software-product-line adoption, but they neglect the migration and maintenance of test cases. Automating the refactoring of tests can help to facilitate the adoption barrier, compare the quality after migrations, and support maintenance. In this vision paper, we i) discuss open research challenges that are based on our experiences and ii) sketch a first framework to develop automated solutions. Overall, we aim to illustrate our idea and initiate further research to facilitate the adoption and maintenance of software product lines.

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SPLC '18: Proceedings of the 22nd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference - Volume 1

September 2018

324 pages

ISBN:9781450364645

DOI:10.1145/3233027

Editors:
Thorsten Berger
Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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Paulo Borba
Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
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Goetz Botterweck
University of Limerick, Ireland
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Tomi Männistö
University of Helsinki, Finland
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David Benavides
University of Seville, Spain
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University of Alberta, Canada
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Timo Kehrer
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
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Christoph Elsner
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