A classification of product sampling for software product lines

M Varshosaz, M Al-Hajjaji, T Thüm, T Runge… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
The analysis of software product lines is challenging due to the potentially large number of
products, which grow exponentially in terms of the number of features. Product sampling is a …

Propagating configuration decisions with modal implication graphs

S Krieter, T Thüm, S Schulze, R Schröter… - Proceedings of the 40th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Highly-configurable systems encompass thousands of interdependent configuration options,
which require a non-trivial configuration process. Decision propagation enables a …

Genetic algorithm-based test generation for software product line with the integration of fault localization techniques

X Li, WE Wong, R Gao, L Hu, S Hosono - Empirical Software Engineering, 2018 - Springer
In response to the highly competitive market and the pressure to cost-effectively release
good-quality software, companies have adopted the concept of software product line to …

A Monte Carlo tree search conceptual framework for feature model analyses

JM Horcas, JA Galindo, R Heradio… - Journal of Systems and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Challenging domains of the future such as Smart Cities, Cloud Computing, or Industry 4.0
expose highly variable systems with colossal configuration spaces. The automated analysis …

A Survey of the Metrics, Uses, and Subjects of Diversity-Based Techniques in Software Testing

IT Elgendy, RM Hierons, P McMinn - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.09714, 2023 - arxiv.org
There has been a significant amount of interest regarding the use of diversity-based testing
techniques in software testing over the past two decades. Diversity-based testing (DBT) …

Looking for novelty in search-based software product line testing

Y Xiang, H Huang, M Li, S Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Testing software product lines (SPLs) is difficult due to a huge number of possible products
to be tested. Recently, there has been a growing interest in similarity-based testing of SPLs …

Efficient interactive and automated product-line configuration

S Krieter - 2022 - repo.bibliothek.uni-halle.de
Modern, highly-configurable systems comprise an enormous number of variants that are
created from a common code base and tailored to specific user requirements. Managing this …

Measuring effectiveness of sample-based product-line testing

S Ruland, L Luthmann, J Bürdek, S Lity… - Proceedings of the 17th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Recent research on quality assurance (QA) of configurable software systems (eg, software
product lines) proposes different analysis strategies to cope with the inherent complexity …

Similarity analysis of product-line variants

M Al-Hajjaji, M Schulze, U Ryssel - … of the 22nd International Systems and …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Many existing approaches have exploited the similarity notion to analyze software systems.
In product-line engineering, similarity notion has been considered to fulfill analysis …

Automated Quality-Assurance Techniques for the Modernization of Software-Product Lines

S Ruland - 2022 - tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de
Nowadays, quality assurance for highly configurable software has become increasingly
important. One of the most established ways to ensure software quality is testing. For …