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Testing Variability-Intensive Systems

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Gilles Perrouin,

Xavier Devroey,

Maxime CordyAuthors Info & Claims

SPLC '17: Proceedings of the 21st International Systems and Software Product Line Conference - Volume A

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3106195.3106226

Published: 25 September 2017 Publication History

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Cost-effective techniques to test software in the presence of variability are popular in academia but are not systematically applied in practice yet. This half-day tutorial offers an overview of the state of the art of some of the hottest topics in the field such as (dis)similarity & search-based testing, model-based testing or mutation analysis. We will present the most significant results obtained during the last five years ranging from conceptual foundations to readily usable tools. In particular, we will rely on VIBeS, a model-based open source framework we developed to test product lines behaviour. We will illustrate all these concepts on JHipster, a variability-intensive web development stack.

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X. Devroey, G. Perrouin, P. Y. Schobbens, and P. Heymans. 2015. Poster: VIBeS, Transition System Mutation Made Easy. In ICSE, Vol. 2. IEEE, 817--818.

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Patrick Heymans, Axel Legay, and Maxime Cordy. 2013. Efficient Quality Assurance of Variability-intensive Systems. In ICSE. IEEE, 1496--1498.

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Testing Variability-Intensive Systems
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
      1. Reusability
        Software product lines
    2. Software verification and validation
      1. Software defect analysis
        Software testing and debugging

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September 2017

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ISBN:9781450352215

DOI:10.1145/3106195

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