Industrial evaluation of pairwise SPL testing with MoSo-PoLiTe

Steffens, Michaela; Oster, Sebastian; Lochau, Malte; Fogdal, Thomas

doi:10.1145/2110147.2110154

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“…Furthermore, the CIT literature points out the need for dealing with higher interaction strengths (t > 2) [14], [15], [16]. Preliminary evidence shows that 3-wise interactions may commonly appear in SPL testing practice [17] and that higher interaction strengths are important in achieving a higher fault detection [16]. Additionally, the results of the present study show that state of the art CIT tools fail to scale even on FMs of moderate size for high interaction strengths (t ¼ 3; 4).…”

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Bypassing the Combinatorial Explosion: Using Similarity to Generate and Prioritize T-Wise Test Configurations for Software Product Lines

Henard

Papadakis

Perrouin

et al. 2014

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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Large Software Product Lines (SPLs) are common in industry, thus introducing the need of practical solutions to test them. To this end, t-wise can help to drastically reduce the number of product configurations to test. Current t-wise approaches for SPLs are restricted to small values of t. In addition, these techniques fail at providing means to finely control the configuration process. In view of this, means for automatically generating and prioritizing product configurations for large SPLs are required. This paper proposes (a) a search-based approach capable of generating product configurations for large SPLs, forming a scalable and flexible alternative to current techniques and (b) prioritization algorithms for any set of product configurations. Both these techniques employ a similarity heuristic. The ability of the proposed techniques is assessed in an empirical study through a comparison with state of the art tools. The comparison focuses on both the product configuration generation and the prioritization aspects. The results demonstrate that existing t-wise tools and prioritization techniques fail to handle large SPLs. On the contrary, the proposed techniques are both effective and scalable. Additionally, the experiments show that the similarity heuristic can be used as a viable alternative to t-wise.

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confidence: 99%

Bypassing the Combinatorial Explosion: Using Similarity to Generate and Prioritize T-Wise Test Configurations for Software Product Lines

Henard

Papadakis

Perrouin

et al. 2014

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

206

293

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“…Please note that testing SPL is also a very challenging task, but this topic is not covered in this paper. Earlier work investigating pairwise SPL testing has shown promising results [6].…”

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Extending variability management to the next level

Sierszecki

Steffens

Hojrup

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 18th International Software Product Line Conference - Volume 1

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Danfoss Power Electronics is a centre with both extensive power electronics know-how and many competencies within frequency converters and solar inverters. Development of embedded controllers built in Danfoss products raises similar challenges found in many other companies: creation of product series with an increasing number of variants, while at the same time decreasing time-to-market and keeping development costs low. Introduction of a Software Product Line approach into product development is a challenge that Danfoss Power Electronics decided to take in order to reduce software development efforts few years ago. The approach has been successful allowing for development of a number of highly engineered products. However, the software product line is in a constant evolution. It grows over time as new functionality is added in the form of extra software artefacts and further products are configured from it. As a result, the overall complexity and maintenance of assets hinders further efficiency of the approach. This paper presents extension of the variability management that goes beyond the scope of software assets reuse previously introduced into the organization. A prototype of the technique linking multi-level variability management is further elaborated using pure::variants.

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“…Steffens et al 2012 [18] did an experiment at Danfoss Power Electronics. They tested the Danfoss Automation Drive which has a total of 432 possible configurations.…”

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A Technique for Agile and Automatic Interaction Testing for Product Lines

Johansen¹,

Haugen²,

Fleurey³

et al. 2012

Testing Software and Systems

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Abstract. Product line developers must ensure that existing and new features work in all products. Adding to or changing a product line might break some of its features. In this paper, we present a technique for automatic and agile interaction testing for product lines. The technique enables developers to know if features work together with other features in a product line, and it blends well into a process of continuous integration. The technique is evaluated with two industrial applications, testing a product line of safety devices and the Eclipse IDEs. The first case shows how existing test suites are applied to the products of a 2-wise covering array to identify two interaction faults. The second case shows how over 400,000 test executions are performed on the products of a 2-wise covering array using over 40,000 existing automatic tests to identify potential interactions faults.

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Industrial evaluation of pairwise SPL testing with MoSo-PoLiTe

Cited by 22 publications

References 20 publications

Bypassing the Combinatorial Explosion: Using Similarity to Generate and Prioritize T-Wise Test Configurations for Software Product Lines

Bypassing the Combinatorial Explosion: Using Similarity to Generate and Prioritize T-Wise Test Configurations for Software Product Lines

Extending variability management to the next level

A Technique for Agile and Automatic Interaction Testing for Product Lines

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