Testing of Configurable Systems
Xiao Qu, Industrial Software Systems, ABB Corporate Research, Raleigh NC 27606, USA
Abstract
Configurable software system allows users to customize its applications in various ways, and is becoming increasingly prevalent. Testing configurable software requires extra effort over testing traditional software because there is evidence that running the same test case under different configurations may detect different faults. Differentiating test cases and configurations as two independent factors for testing, we must consider not just which test case to utilize, but also which configurations to test. Ideally, an exhaustive testing approach would combine every test case with every possible configuration. But ...
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