Coverage criteria for behavioural testing of software product lines

Xavier Devroey; Gilles Perrouin; Axel Legay; Maxime Cordy; Pierre-Yves Schobbens; Patrick Heymans

Coverage criteria for behavioural testing of software product lines

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Abstract

Featured Transition Systems (FTS) is a mathematical structure to represent the behaviour of software product line in a concise way. The combination of the well-known transition systems approach to formal behavioural modelling with feature expressions was pivotal to the design of efficient verification approaches. Such approaches indeed avoid to consider products’ behaviour independently, leading to often exponential savings. Building on this successful structure, we lay the foundations of model-based testing approach to SPLs. We define several FTS-aware coverage criteria and report on our experience combining FTS with usage-based testing for configurable websites.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation (ISOLA)
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	336-350
Number of pages	15
Volume	8802
ISBN (Print)	9783662452332
Publication status	Published - 8 Nov 2014
Event	6th International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation, ISoLA 2014 - Imperial, Corfu, Greece Duration: 8 Oct 2014 → 11 Oct 2014

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	8802
ISSN (Print)	03029743
ISSN (Electronic)	16113349

Conference

Conference	6th International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation, ISoLA 2014
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Imperial, Corfu
Period	8/10/14 → 11/10/14

Keywords

Coverage criteria
Model based testing
Software product line engineering

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Devroey, X., Perrouin, G., Legay, A., Cordy, M., Schobbens, P.-Y., & Heymans, P. (2014). Coverage criteria for behavioural testing of software product lines. In Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation (ISOLA) (Vol. 8802, pp. 336-350). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 8802). Springer Verlag.

Devroey, Xavier ; Perrouin, Gilles ; Legay, Axel et al. / Coverage criteria for behavioural testing of software product lines. Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation (ISOLA). Vol. 8802 Springer Verlag, 2014. pp. 336-350 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Devroey, X , Perrouin, G, Legay, A, Cordy, M , Schobbens, P-Y & Heymans, P 2014, Coverage criteria for behavioural testing of software product lines. in Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation (ISOLA). vol. 8802, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 8802, Springer Verlag, pp. 336-350, 6th International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation, ISoLA 2014, Imperial, Corfu, Greece, 8/10/14.

Coverage criteria for behavioural testing of software product lines. / Devroey, Xavier ; Perrouin, Gilles; Legay, Axel et al.
Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation (ISOLA). Vol. 8802 Springer Verlag, 2014. p. 336-350 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 8802).

Research output: Contribution in Book/Catalog/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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Devroey X , Perrouin G, Legay A, Cordy M , Schobbens PY , Heymans P. Coverage criteria for behavioural testing of software product lines. In Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation (ISOLA). Vol. 8802. Springer Verlag. 2014. p. 336-350. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

Coverage criteria for behavioural testing of software product lines

Abstract

Publication series

Conference

Keywords

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VIBeS: Variability Intensive system Behavioural teSting

Thesis-X-Devroey: Behavioural Model Based Testing of Software Product Lines

Journée Ligne de Produits '14

6th International Symposium On Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation

VIBeS Case Studies: Featured Transition Systems and Feature Models

Behavioural model-based testing of software product lines

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Coverage criteria for behavioural testing of software product lines

Abstract

Publication series

Conference

Keywords

Access to Document

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Fingerprint

Research output

VIBeS: Variability Intensive system Behavioural teSting

Projects

Thesis-X-Devroey: Behavioural Model Based Testing of Software Product Lines

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Journée Ligne de Produits '14

6th International Symposium On Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation

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VIBeS Case Studies: Featured Transition Systems and Feature Models

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Behavioural model-based testing of software product lines

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