Evaluating test reuse of a software product line oriented strategy

Author

Assunção, Wesley Klewerton Guez ; De Freitas Guilhermino Trindade, Daniela ; Colanzi, Thelma Elita ; Vergilio, Silvia Regina

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Dept., Fed. Univ. of Parana (UFPR), Curitiba, Brazil

fYear

2011

fDate

27-30 March 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Software Product Line (SPL) test is an emergent research subject, and works found in the literature address some topics such as test process, plain and guidelines, and most recently, strategies to integrate test methods and criteria in the SPL engineering. Strategies that are SPL oriented allow reuse of test assets and were proposed as an alternative to those ones that test product by product in a separated way. However, studies conducted to evaluate the benefits of such strategies are necessary, and have not been conducted yet. Considering this fact, this paper presents results from the application of the SPL oriented strategy, named Reusable Asset Instantiation (RAI). A comparison with the strategy Product by Product is conducted, considering reuse, and test data generation based on use cases.

Keywords

program testing; software reusability; SPL engineering; SPL oriented strategy; literature address; reusable asset instantiation; software product line oriented strategy; test asset; test data generation; test method; test process; test product; test reuse evaluation; Animation; Games; Guidelines; Pluto; Software; reuse; software product line; test data generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Test Workshop (LATW), 2011 12th Latin American

Conference_Location

Porto de Galinhas

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1489-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LATW.2011.5985891

Filename

5985891