Evaluating test reuse of a software product line oriented strategy

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.