Strategies for product-line verification: case studies and experiments

Product-line technology is increasingly used in mission-critical and safety-critical applications. Hence, researchers are developing verification approaches that follow different strategies to cope with the specific properties of product lines. While the research community is discussing the mutual s...

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Published in:Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering pp. 482 - 491
Main Authors: Apel, Sven, Rhein, Alexander von, Wendler, Philipp, Größlinger, Armin, Beyer, Dirk
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: Piscataway, NJ, USA IEEE Press 18.05.2013
Series:ACM Conferences
Subjects:
General and reference > Cross-computing tools and techniques > Verification
Social and professional topics > Professional topics > Management of computing and information systems > Software management
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Software development process management
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Software verification and validation > Formal software verification
Software and its engineering > Software organization and properties > Software functional properties > Formal methods > Software verification
Theory of computation > Semantics and reasoning > Program reasoning > Program verification
ISBN:1467330760, 9781467330763
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Summary:Product-line technology is increasingly used in mission-critical and safety-critical applications. Hence, researchers are developing verification approaches that follow different strategies to cope with the specific properties of product lines. While the research community is discussing the mutual strengths and weaknesses of the different strategies—mostly at a conceptual level—there is a lack of evidence in terms of case studies, tool implementations, and experiments. We have collected and prepared six product lines as subject systems for experimentation. Furthermore, we have developed a model-checking tool chain for C-based and Java-based product lines, called SPLVERIFIER, which we use to compare sample-based and family-based strategies with regard to verification performance and the ability to find defects. Based on the experimental results and an analytical model, we revisit the discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of product-line–verification strategies.
ISBN:1467330760
9781467330763
DOI:10.5555/2486788.2486852