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Variability in Test Systems: Review and Challenges

Authors:
Aitor Arrieta
Goiuria Sagardui
Leire Etxeberria

Keywords: Test Systems; Test Architecture; Variability; Validation

Abstract:
Customizable products are increasing in our society, which creates a need on software systems, embedded systems and cyber-physical systems to handle variability. In addition, many companies are moving towards continuous integration and deployment and as a result, an automated solution to testing the relevant configurations is needed. Thus, variability appears in different stages of the product life-cycle. When validating these configurable systems, the test framework has to deal with their variability in order to test different system variants. Modelling variability in the test systems is an elegant solution to test and validate variability-intensive systems. This paper studies some test systems that handle variability and compares their characteristics and limitations, which can help test engineers needing a variability handling test system to choose among different approaches.

Pages: 15 to 22

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: November 15, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4316

ISBN: 978-1-61208-441-1

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from November 15, 2015 to November 20, 2015