Embedded software for a space interferometry system: automated analysis of a software product line architecture

Architecture-based testing allows test engineers to focus on the structure of complicated software and the interactions between software components that constitute the architecture of a software product. By observing and controlling the connections and interactions between components of complex or large systems during software testing, architecture-based testing can detect and localize such faults at those locations. The complexity of software product line testing is high because an implementation under test contains variability given the different binding times and is used by multiple products. This paper introduces how architecture-based testing is applied to test generation for a software product line and examines the strengths of the proposed method against existing software product line testing methods. The paper also illustrates the use of product line architecture and architectural artifacts to generate product line interaction tests. It was found that architecture-based testing can be applied to software product line test generation by tailoring it to deal with variability and product-line specific processes. The results of a comparison with existing methods show that architecture-based software product line test generation provides better capabilities in terms of variability in the testing stage, the explicit formation and application of binding, test coverage, and architectural awareness.

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A LITERATURE REVIEW ON FEATURE DIAGRAM PRODUCT COUNTING AND ITS USAGE IN SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINE ECONOMIC MODELS

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering ◽

10.1142/s0218194013500368 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 23 (08) ◽

pp. 1177-1204 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

RUBEN HERADIO ◽

DAVID FERNANDEZ-AMOROS ◽

JOSE A. CERRADA ◽

ISMAEL ABAD

Keyword(s):

Cost Savings ◽

Economic Models ◽

Automated Analysis ◽

Software Product Line ◽

Product Line ◽

Product Lines ◽

Software Product ◽

Feature Diagram ◽

The Cost ◽

Line Engineering

In software product line engineering, feature diagrams are a popular means to represent the similarities and differences within a family of related systems. In addition, feature diagrams implicitly model valuable information that can be used in economic models to estimate the cost savings of a product line. In particular, this paper reviews existing proposals on computing the total number of products modeled with a feature diagram and, given a feature, the number of products that implement it. This paper also reviews the economic information that can be estimated when such numbers are known. Thus, this paper contributes by bringing together previously-disparate streams of work: the automated analysis of feature diagrams and economic models for product lines.

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Study on Manufacturing Materials with an Aspect-Oriented Modeling Method for Embedded Software Product Lines

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.771.183 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 771 ◽

pp. 183-186

Author(s):

Hua Xiao Liu ◽

Bing Li ◽

Ying Jin ◽

Xue Hang Chi

Keyword(s):

Software Product Lines ◽

Embedded Software ◽

Software Product Line ◽

Modeling Method ◽

Product Line ◽

Reference Architecture ◽

Product Lines ◽

Software Product ◽

Line Technology ◽

Aspect Oriented Modeling

For different Manufacturing Materials, various embedded software is often needed to use to configure and implement different functions during the processing of production. In order to improve the reusability of embedded software, this paper combines the software product line technology to present a software product line reference architecture OVM_AO model, gives a detail modeling of the modify code part, meanwhile, gives the rule of transform the model to AOP model, improves the efficiency of the software automate equipped with material.

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