Dagstuhl Seminar 14281 - Feature Interactions: The Next Generation

Description

Adopting a middle-ground view between Michael Jackson's ("features are behaviours”) and Christian Kaestner's ("features are configuration options") definitions, we consider features as units of variability specified within a feature model. Feature models can be used to document valid choices (called configurations) formed by combinations of features. Such configurations can either relate to desired elevator behaviours’ interactions (normal use, emergency use, etc.) or to viable Linux kernels. The number of configurations derivable from a given feature model grows exponentially with the number of features, making the testing process inherently difficult. To harness combinatorial explosion of the number of configurations to be considered, we propose to sample them by computing t-way interactions from the feature model. We present initial experiments and a search-based approach maximising dissimilarity between configurations. This approach mimics combinatorial interaction testing techniques in a flexible and scalable manner.

Period	9 Jul 2014
Event type	Seminar
Location	Wadern, GermanyShow on map