WoS İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / WoS Indexed Publications Collection
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Conference Object Avoidance of Feature Configuration Faults in Software Product Lines(IEEE Computer Soc, 2025) Ergun, Burcu; Tuglular, Tugkan; Belli, FevziThis paper presents a validation approach to feature selection in software product lines (SPL). SPLs consist of similar products tailored to different needs, while SPLs sharing a common platform where feature configurations define product families. Validating feature configurations is critical to avoid defective shipments, recalls, and disposal. Exhaustive, pairwise, and combinatorial testing, among others, aim at ensuring configuration correctness. This paper introduces a novel method for improving feature selection and validation in SPLs by minimizing redundancy while ensuring configurations align with customer needs. The method emphasizes uncovering the differences in feature structures through "complex" and "simple" models, which helps identify and helps identify and tolerate potential errors arising from incorrect feature configurations. This ensures broader coverage while effectively managing dependencies. A case study using the Access Point (AP) SPL model, which is a networking device designed to enhance the strength of an existing wireless signal and expand its coverage area. The AP can enable or disable specific features on AP SPL depending on the characteristics of the third-party gateway with which it is integrated. AP SPL model with 66 features lead to 266 configurations, generated by Exhaustive Testing. Pairwise testing achieves 87% coverage with 132 test cases, while combinatorial testing reaches 94% with 45,760 cases. Our method ensures 100% feature coverage with just 3 test configurations. Thus, the approach introduced in this paper enhances product quality while reducing costs by avoiding redundant tests, making the approaches valuable for large-scale SPLs.Conference Object Citation - WoS: 3Citation - Scopus: 2Heterogeneous Modeling and Testing of Software Product Lines(IEEE, 2021) Belli, Fevzi; Tuğlular, Tuğkan; Ufuktepe, EkincanSoftware product line (SPL) engineering is a widely accepted approach to systematically realizing software reuse in an industrial environment. Feature models, a centerpiece of most SPL engineering techniques, are appropriate to model the variability and the structure of SPLs, but not their behavior. This paper uses the idea to link feature modeling to model-based behavior modeling and to determine the test direction (top-down or bottom-up) based on the variability binding. This heterogeneous modeling enables a holistic system testing for validating both desirable (positive) and undesirable (negative) properties of the SPL and variants. The proposed approach is validated by a non-trivial example and evaluated by comparison.Conference Object Coverage Guided Multiple Base Choice Testing(IEEE, 2020) Tuğlular, Tuğkan; Leblebici, OnurA coverage guided input domain testing approach is presented with a feedback loop-controlled testing workflow and a tool is developed to support this workflow. Multiple base choices coverage criterion (MBCC) is chosen for systematic unit test generation in the proposed approach and branch coverage information is utilized as feedback to improve selection of bases, which results in improved branch coverage. The proposed workflow is supported with the tool designed and developed for coverage guided MBCC-based unit testing.Conference Object Citation - WoS: 1Automatic Enforcement of Location Aware User Based Network Access Control Policies(World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society, 2008) Tuğlular, TuğkanMultiple interconnected network segments distributed across various locations, such as corporate networks, where users or employees constantly travel among segments and require to access servers, need to have network access control mechanisms that are able to adapt to these location changes. The idea of a firewall changing or adapting its rules depending on the location of users is presented by an architecture in this paper. This architecture proposes deployment of a policy server at the management level and policy agents at the firewall level, so that policy-driven network security management is enabled by specifying location aware user based network access control policies at the network security management and enforcing them at the managed firewalls. The architecture presented in this paper utilizes user VPN connection event triggers for dynamic policy configuration and automated policy deployment to firewalls. Location aware user based network access control policies, which are management level policies, are implemented using XACML. A network level policy is usually a configuration, or policy, file local to the firewall. The policy agent incorporated into the firewall performs the mapping from management level policy to firewall policy.Conference Object Information and Communication Technology Sector Strategy Map of Izmir(LookUs Scientific, 2013) Tuğlular, Tuğkan; Tekir, Selma; Velibeyoğlu, KorayThis study aims to understand current dynamics of the Izmir's ICT sector by looking at its dynamics and mapping the spatial distribution of the firms. It is based on series of analysis produced for Izmir Development Agency in 2012 within the frame of preparation of 2014-2023 Izmir Regional Development Plan. It conducts a Delphi survey to support situation knowledge as well as trend prediction for the next 10 years' period. Furthermore, gap analysis is performed to measure the margin between the current situation of the ICT sector and future trends predicted by experts. The study also maps Izmir's ICT sector's location preferences based on Izmir Chamber of Commerce's publicly available web-based database. It illustrated that ICT sector's trend largely based on centripetal and spontaneously developed clusters placed in the central part of the city. On the other hand, planned technology regions and science parks are relatively immature and need to be developed. Within the light of this dichotomy this study proposes a strategy map to Izmir's ICT sector.Conference Object Belge Sorumluluk İş-birliği Modelleme Yöntemi ile Otomatik Kod Üretimi(IEEE, 2020) Tuğlular, Tuğkan; Leblebici, OnurUML is highly preferred for design in current software development approaches. However, the conceptual gap between entities in business processes and classes in UML designs is not small. To reduce this gap, this paper proposes using documents that are vital to every business. The proposed new method called Document Responsibility Collaboration puts the concept of documents at the center. In the proposed method, documents are meta-models of classes in terms of programming, and at the same time, they are meta-models of relationships in terms of permanence. The proposed Document Responsibility Collaboration method uses the domain concept in which domains are made up of documents, and a document defined in a domain can work with another document in any domain to fulfill its responsibility. Document Responsibility Collaboration method defines a process, which starts at the transition from analysis to design phase and continues to the code generation phase. An example from the order management domain is provided to validate the recommended method. © 2020 IEEE.Conference Object Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 1Mutation Operators for Decision Table-Based Contracts Used in Software Testing(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2020) Khalilov, Abbas; Tuğlular, Tuğkan; Belli, FevziThe Design by Contract technique allows developers to improve source code with contracts, and testing using contracts helps to identify faults. However, the source code of the program under test is not always available. With black-box testing, it is possible to generate contracts from specifications of the software. In this paper, we apply mutation analysis on a model of a given specifications, where mutants are initially gained by applying proposed in this paper certain mutation operators on corresponding model, and then mutated specifications are examined. © 2020 IEEE.Conference Object Citation - WoS: 5Citation - Scopus: 5Featured Event Sequence Graphs for Model-Based Incremental Testing of Software Product Lines(IEEE, 2019) Tuğlular, Tuğkan; Beyazıt, Mutlu; Öztürk, DilekThe goal of software product lines (SPLs) is rapid development of high-quality software products in a specific domain with cost minimization. To assure quality of software products from SPLs, products need to be tested systematically. However, testing every product variant in isolation is generally not feasible for large number of product variants. An approach to deal with this issue is to use incremental testing, where test artifacts that are developed for one product are reused for another product which can be obtained by incrementally adding features to the prior product. We propose a novel model-based test generation approach for products developed using SPL that follows incremental testing paradigm. First, we introduce Featured Event Sequence Graphs (FESGs), an extension of ESGs, that provide necessary definitions and operations to support commonalities and variabilities in SPLs with respect to test models. Then we propose a test generation technique for the product variants of an SPL, which starts from any product. The proposed technique with FESGs avoids redundant test generation for each product from SPL. We compare our technique with in-isolation testing approach by a case study.Conference Object Event Sequence Graph-Based Feature-Oriented Testing: a Preliminary Study(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018) Tuğlular, TuğkanThis paper proposes a model-based approach for feature-oriented testing using event sequence graphs (ESGs). ESGs are used to generate test cases automatically for positive and negative testing. To fit ESG models to feature-oriented testing, two new improvements on ESGs are proposed. The first improvement is on repetitive use of refinement ESG and the second improvement is saving state in an ESG and passing it to the following ESG. This is a work towards communicating hierarchical ESGs. The preliminary results demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach. The proposed approach improves testability of features.Conference Object Citation - WoS: 8Citation - Scopus: 9A Program Slicing-Based Bayesian Network Model for Change Impact Analysis(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018) Ufuktepe, Ekincan; Tuğlular, TuğkanChange impact analysis plays an important role in identifying potential affected areas that are caused by changes that are made in a software. Most of the existing change impact analysis techniques are based on architectural design and change history. However, source code-based change impact analysis studies are very few and they have shown higher precision in their results. In this study, a static method-granularity level change impact analysis, that uses program slicing and Bayesian Network technique has been proposed. The technique proposes a directed graph model that also represents the call dependencies between methods. In this study, an open source Java project with 8999 to 9445 lines of code and from 505 to 528 methods have been analyzed through 32 commits it went. Recall and f-measure metrics have been used for evaluation of the precision of the proposed method, where each software commit has been analyzed separately.