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Generating test cases and procedures from use cases in dynamic software product lines

Authors:

Italo L. Araújo,

Ismayle S. Santos,

João B. Ferreira Filho,

Rossana M. C. Andrade,

Pedro Santos NetoAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '17: Proceedings of the Symposium on Applied Computing

Pages 1296 - 1301

https://doi.org/10.1145/3019612.3019790

Published: 03 April 2017 Publication History

Abstract

Software engineering is systematically evolving to address the production of families of systems instead of single products. This evolution comes at a price, it is now essential to deal with variability at both design and execution time. Developing test cases and procedures for a whole family of systems considering this dynamicity (variability at runtime) can be challenging. We propose a method to generate tests from use case specifications expressed in a controlled natural language, yet considering the variability and dynamicity in those specifications. We evaluate our method against use case specifications of a family of mobile and context-aware systems. Experimenting our method, we could measure that developing test cases and procedures becomes around 40+ faster when using our approach, opposed to manual development of tests under the same conditions.

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Agh HAzamnouri AWagner S(2024)Software product line testing: a systematic literature reviewEmpirical Software Engineering10.1007/s10664-024-10516-x29:6Online publication date: 2-Sep-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10664-024-10516-x
Garg P(2021)The Internet of Things-Based TechnologiesEvolution of Software-Defined Networking Foundations for IoT and 5G Mobile Networks10.4018/978-1-7998-4685-7.ch003(37-65)Online publication date: 2021
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4685-7.ch003
Andrade RCarvalho Rde Araújo IOliveira KMaia M(2017)What Changes from Ubiquitous Computing to Internet of Things in Interaction Evaluation?Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions10.1007/978-3-319-58697-7_1(3-21)Online publication date: 18-May-2017
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58697-7_1

Index Terms

Generating test cases and procedures from use cases in dynamic software product lines
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software verification and validation
      1. Software defect analysis
        Software testing and debugging
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Context specific languages
      1. Command and control languages

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ISBN:9781450344869

DOI:10.1145/3019612

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New Mexico Tech
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Agh HAzamnouri AWagner S(2024)Software product line testing: a systematic literature reviewEmpirical Software Engineering10.1007/s10664-024-10516-x29:6Online publication date: 2-Sep-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10664-024-10516-x
Garg P(2021)The Internet of Things-Based TechnologiesEvolution of Software-Defined Networking Foundations for IoT and 5G Mobile Networks10.4018/978-1-7998-4685-7.ch003(37-65)Online publication date: 2021
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4685-7.ch003
Andrade RCarvalho Rde Araújo IOliveira KMaia M(2017)What Changes from Ubiquitous Computing to Internet of Things in Interaction Evaluation?Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions10.1007/978-3-319-58697-7_1(3-21)Online publication date: 18-May-2017
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58697-7_1

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