Workshop 4 (W4)
10th
International Software Product Line Conference
(SPLC 2006)
21-24 August
2006
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
SPLiT 2006 - 3rd Workshop on Software Product Line
Testing
http://www.biglever.com/split2006/
22 August 2006
Organizers:
Peter
Knauber, Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Charles Krueger, BigLever Software,
Austin, TX, USA
Tim Trew, Philips
Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Contact: split@biglever.com
Description
Product line
engineering (PLE) has become a major topic in industrial software development,
and many organizations have started to consider PLE as state of the practice.
One topic that needs greater emphasis is testing of product lines. Product line
testing is crucial to the successful establishment of PLE technology in an
organization.
The workshop addresses some of the open fundamental challenges of testing in a PLE setting. Given the improvements in productivity that PLE delivers to development, how does a test organization keep pace? To what extent can we test reusable assets and how much can this reduce the testing obligations for each product? What kinds of changes or extensions have to be made to the PL infrastructure to support testing appropriately? Can we leverage our established testing tools and procedures? What properties of a PL architecture improve the testability of reusable assets and products and how can these be enforced during architectural design? Are there PLE techniques that can provide similar efficiency gains for testing as are possible for development? Without adequate answers, testing becomes the bottleneck in PLE.
In this workshop we aim to bring together both researchers and practitioners on all aspects of PL testing, from designing for testability, through test coverage, to testing tools. We are especially interested in exchanging industrial experience in PL testing and comparing different approaches to enable an integration of different ideas. Our goal is to provide a context for such an information exchange and to provide an opportunity to discuss innovative ideas, setting a research agenda, and starting collaborations on this topic. We intend to invite experts not only from product-line engineering, but also testing experts.
Submission (extended!): The extended deadline for submissions is June 19, 2006. For more information please visit the workshop homepage at http://www.biglever.com/split2006/.
