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A survey of empirics of strategies for software product line testing

Abstract

We should employ a strategy to test product lines. Testing products individually is redundant for product lines since the products share a considerable amount of code. This document presents a survey of product line testing strategies based on the best available empirics out there. We found that, particularly, a testing strategy backed up with empirics is reusable component testing. Based on the empirics, we found that testing components in isolation will probably reduce the effort required on testing the whole product line compared to testing each product that is delivered to a customer from scratch, to achieve the same defect detection level.

Category

Academic chapter

Language

English

Author(s)

  • Martin Fagereng Johansen
  • Øystein Haugen
  • Franck Fleurey

Affiliation

  • SINTEF Digital / Sustainable Communication Technologies
  • University of Oslo

Year

2011

Publisher

IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

Book

Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops, ICSTW '11

ISBN

9781457700194

Page(s)

266 - 269

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