CONTEXT: Software product lines (SPL) are used in industry to achieve more efficient
software development. However, the testing side of SPL is underdeveloped. OBJECTIVE …

CONTEXT: Variability management (VM) is one of the most important activities of software
product-line engineering (SPLE), which intends to develop software-intensive systems using …

Background Systematic literature reviews and systematic mapping studies are becoming
increasingly common in software engineering, and hence it becomes even more important …

CONTEXT: In software development, Testing is an important mechanism both to identify
defects and assure that completed products work as specified. This is a common practice in …

Diversity is prevalent in modern software systems to facilitate adapting the software to
customer requirements or the execution environment. Diversity has an impact on all phases …

Test minimization techniques aim at identifying and eliminating redundant test cases from
test suites in order to reduce the total number of test cases to execute, thereby improving the …

Software product line (SPL) testing consists of two separate but closely related test
engineering activities: domain testing and application testing. Various software product line …

Software product line modeling has received a great deal of attention for its potential in
fostering reuse of software artifacts across development phases. Research on the testing …

Combinatorial interaction testing (CIT) is a cost-effective sampling technique for discovering
interaction faults in highly configurable systems. Recent work with greedy CIT algorithms …

Recent advances in mechanical techniques for systematic testing have increased our ability
to automatically find subtle bugs, and hence, to deploy more dependable software. This …