Test2Feature: feature-based test traceability tool for highly configurable software

Description

To ensure the quality of Highly Configurable Software (HCS) in an evolution and maintenance scenario is a challenging task. As HCSs evolve, new features are added, changed, or removed, which hampers the selection and evolution of test cases. The use of test traceability reports can help in this task, but there is a lack of studies addressing HCS test-to-feature traceability. Existing work usually are based on the variability model, which is not always available or updated. Some tools only link test cases to code lines. Considering this gap, this paper introduces Test2Feature, a tool that traces test cases to features using the source code of annotated HCSs, written in C/C++. The tool produces the following outputs: the code lines that correspond to each feature, the lines that correspond to each test case, and the test cases that are linked to each feature. Test2Feature is based only on the static analysis of the code. The traceability report produced can be used to ease different tasks related, for instance, to regression testing, feature management, and HCS evolution and maintenance.

Period	14 Sept 2022
Event title	26th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2022)
Event type	Conference
Location	Graz, AustriaShow on map