Software Product Line

A Decade of Featured Transition Systems

Variability-intensive systems (VIS) form a large and heterogeneous class of systems whose behaviour can be modified by enabling or disabling predefined features. Variability mechanisms allows the adaptation of software to the needs of their users and …

Variability Intensive system Behavioural teSting (VIBeS)

VIBeS is the framework I developed during my PhD thesis to generate test-cases from models of variability-intensive systems.

Statistical prioritization for software product line testing: an experience report

Software product lines (SPLs) are families of software systems sharing common assets and exhibiting variabilities specific to each product member of the family. Commonalities and variabilities are often represented as features organized in a feature …

Behavioural model-based testing of software product lines

SPL engineering is a sub-discipline of software engineering based on the idea that products of the same family can be built by systematically reusing assets, some of them being common to all members whereas others are only shared by a subset of the …

On Featured Transition Systems

Software Product Lines (SPLs) are families of similar software products built from a common set of features. As the number of products of an SPL is potentially exponential in the number of its features, analysing SPLs is harder than for single …

Search-based Similarity-driven Behavioural SPL Testing

Dissimilar test cases have been proven to be effective to reveal faults in software systems. In the Software Product Line (SPL) context, this criterion has been applied successfully to mimic combinatorial interaction testing in an efficient and …

Covering SPL Behaviour with Sampled Configurations: An Initial Assessment

Structural approaches to Software Product Lines (SPL) testing (such as pairwise testing) have gained momentum as they are able to scale to larger SPLs described as feature diagrams (FD). However, these methods are agnostic with respect to behaviour: …

Poster : VIBeS , Transition System Mutation Made Easy

Mutation testing is an established technique used to evaluate the quality of a set of test cases. As model-based testing took momentum, mutation techniques were lifted to the model level. However, as for code mutation analysis, assessing test cases …

Abstract Test Case Generation for Behavioural Testing of Software Product Lines

In Model Based Testing (MBT), test cases are generated automatically from a partial representation of expected behaviour of the System Under Test (SUT) (i.e., the model). For most industrial systems, it is impossible to generate all the possible test …

Coverage Criteria for Behavioural Testing of Software Product Lines

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 …