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    Citation - Scopus: 5
    Unifying Behavioral and Feature Modeling for Testing of Software Product Lines
    (World Scientific Publishing, 2023) Belli, Fevzi; Tuğlular, Tuğkan; Ufuktepe, Ekincan
    Existing software product line (SPL) engineering testing approaches generally provide positive testing that validates the SPL's functionality. Negative testing is commonly neglected. This research aims to unify behavioral and feature models of an SPL, enable testing before and after variability binding for domain-centric and product-centric testing, and combine positive and negative testing for a holistic testing view. This study suggests behavioral modeling with event sequence graphs (ESGs). This heterogeneous modeling strategy supports bottom-up domain testing and top-down product testing with the feature model. This new feature-oriented ESG test creation method generates shorter test sequences than the original ESG optimum test sequences. Statechart and original ESG test-generating methods are compared. Positive testing findings are similar. The Statechart technique generated 12 test cases with 59 events, whereas the ESG technique created six test cases with 60 events. The ESG technique generated 205 negative test cases with 858 events with the Test Suite Designer tool. However, the Conformiq Designer tool for the Statechart technique does not have a negative test case generation capability. It is shown that the proposed ESG-based holistic approach confirms not only the desirable (positive) properties but also the undesirable (negative) ones. As an additional research, the traditional ESG test-generating approach is compared to the new feature-oriented method on six SPLs of different sizes and features. Our case study results show that the traditional ESG test generation approach demonstrated higher positive test generation scores compare to the proposed feature-oriented test generation approach. However, our proposed feature-oriented test generation approach is capable of generating shorter test sequences, which could be beneficial for reducing the execution time of test cases compared to traditional ESG approach. Finally, our case study has also shown that regardless of the test generation approach, there has been found no significant difference between the Bottom-up and Top-down test strategies with respect to their positive test generation scores. © World Scientific Publishing Company.
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    Citation - Scopus: 1
    Assuring Dependability of Software Reuse: an Industrial Standard
    (Springer Verlag, 2014) Belli, Fevzi
    Whereas a software component may be perfectly suited to one application, it may prove to cause severe faults in other applications. The prestandard IEC/PAS 62814 (Dependability of Software Products Containing Reusable Components – Guidance for Functionality and Tests), which has recently been released, addresses the functionality, testing, and dependability of software components to be reused and products that contain software to be used in more than one application; that is, reused by the same or by another development organization, regardless of whether it belongs to the same or another legal entity than the one that has developed this software. This paper introduces into this pre-standard and give hints how to use it. The author, who chaired its realization that started in 2006, briefly summarizes the difficult process to bring the industrial partners with controversial interests to a consensus.
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    Citation - WoS: 3
    Citation - Scopus: 3
    Model-Based Contract Testing of Graphical User Interfaces
    (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, 2015) Tuğlular, Tuğkan; Linschulte, Michael; Belli, Fevzi; Müftüoğlu, Arda
    Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) are critical for the security, safety and reliability of software systems. Injection attacks, for instance via SQL, succeed due to insufficient input validation and can be avoided if contract-based approaches, such as Design by Contract, are followed in the software development lifecycle of GUIs. This paper proposes a model-based testing approach for detecting GUI data contract violations, which may result in serious failures such as system crash. A contract-based model of GUI data specifications is used to develop test scenarios and to serve as test oracle. The technique introduced uses multi terminal binary decision diagrams, which are designed as an integral part of decision tableaugmented event sequence graphs, to implement a GUI testing process. A case study, which validates the presented approach on a port scanner written in Java programming language, is presented. Copyright © 2015 The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers.
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    Citation - WoS: 8
    Citation - Scopus: 10
    Model-Based Higher-Order Mutation Analysis
    (Springer Verlag, 2010) Belli, Fevzi; Güler, Nevin; Hollmann, Axel; Suna, Gökhan; Yıldız, Esra
    Mutation analysis is widely used as an implementation-oriented method for software testing and test adequacy assessment. It is based on creating different versions of the software by seeding faults into its source code and constructing test cases to reveal these changes. However, in case that source code of software is not available, mutation analysis is not applicable. In such cases, the approach introduced in this paper suggests the alternative use of a model of the software under test. The objectives of this approach are (i) introduction of a new technique for first-order and higher-order mutation analysis using two basic mutation operators on graph-based models, (ii) comparison of the fault detection ability of first-order and higher-order mutants, and (iii) validity assessment of the coupling effect. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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    Model Based Testing of Vhdl Programs
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015) Ayav, Tolga; Tuğlular, Tuğkan; Belli, Fevzi
    VHDL programs are often validated by means of test benches constructed from formal system specification. To include real-time properties of VHDL programs, the proposed approach first transforms them to concurrently running network of timed automata and then performs model checking on properties taken from the specification. Counterexamples generated by the model checker are used to form a test bench. The approach is validated by a case study composed of a nontrivial application running on a microprocessor. As presented, the approach enables testing both hardware and software at once.
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    Citation - Scopus: 5
    Gui-Based Testing of Boundary Overflow Vulnerability
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2009) Tuğlular, Tuğkan; Müftüoğlu, Can Arda; Kaya, Özgür; Belli, Fevzi; Linschulte, M.
    Boundary overflows are caused by violation of constraints, mostly limiting the range of internal values of a program, and can be provoked by an intruder to gain control of or access to stored data. In order to countermeasure this well-known vulnerability issue, this paper focuses on input validation of graphical user interfaces (GUI). The approach proposed generates test cases for numerical inputs based on GUI specification through decision tables. If boundary overflow error(s) are detected, the source code will be analyzed to localize and correct the encountered error(s) automatically.