An Experimental Study to Evaluate a SPL Architecture Regression Testing Approach

SILVEIRA NETO, P. A. M. ; MACHADO, I. C. ; ALMEIDA, Eduardo Santana de ; CAVALCANTI, Yguaratã Cerqueira ; GARCIA, Vinicius Cardoso . An Experimental Study to Evaluate a SPL Architecture Regression Testing Approach. In: 13th International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI), 2012, Las Vegas. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI). Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society Press, 2012.

Abstract. In Software Product Line Engineering, where products are derived from a common platform, the reference architecture should be considered the main asset. In order to maintain its correctness and reliability after modifications, a regression testing approach based on architecture specification and code was developed. In this paper, we evaluate it in two different scenarios, the corrective scenario, in which it was performed after a corrective change in the code, and in the progressive scenario, executed after a evolution or enhancement, when some specification changes. The results showed that the progressive scenario was less costly than the corrective. Our evaluation also highlights the importance of a code-based technique to select a set of efficient and effective test cases.