Model-based testing of software product lines

Due to the rising demand for individualised software products and software-intensive systems (e.g.,mobile phone or automotive software), organizations are faced with the challenge to provide a diversity of software systems at low costs, in short time, and with high quality. Software product line engineering is the approach for tackling this challenge and has proven its effectiveness in numerous industrial success stories, including Siemens, ABB, Boeing, Hewlett-Packard, Philips, and Bosch [Pohl et al. 2005]

A Technique for Agile and Automatic Interaction Testing for Product Lines

Part 2: Testing in PracticeInternational audienceProduct 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