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Use case-based testing of product lines

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Antonia Bertolino,

Stefania GnesiAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 28, Issue 5

Pages 355 - 358

https://doi.org/10.1145/949952.940120

Published: 01 September 2003 Publication History

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This paper presents PLUTO, a simple and intuitive methodology to manage the testing process of product lines, described as Product Lines Use Cases (PLUCs). PLUCs are an extension of the well-known Cockburn's Use Cases, a notation based on natural language descriptions of requirements. The proposed test methodology is based on the Category Partition method, and can be used to derive a generic Test Specification for the product line, and a set of relevant test scenarios for a customer specific application.

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Use case-based testing of product lines
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Requirements analysis
    2. Software verification and validation
      1. Software defect analysis
        Software testing and debugging

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 28, Issue 5

September 2003

382 pages

ISSN:0163-5948

DOI:10.1145/949952

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ESEC/FSE-11: Proceedings of the 9th European software engineering conference held jointly with 11th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
September 2003
394 pages
ISBN:1581137435
DOI:10.1145/940071
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