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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 - WoS: 5
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    Featured Event Sequence Graphs for Model-Based Incremental Testing of Software Product Lines
    (IEEE, 2019) Tuğlular, Tuğkan; Beyazıt, Mutlu; Öztürk, Dilek
    The 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.
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    Model-Based Selective Layer-Centric Testing
    (Information Processing Society of Japan, 2018) Belli, Fevzi; Güler Dinçer, Nevin; Linschulte, Michael; Tuğlular, Tuğkan
    Model-based testing of large systems usually requires decomposition of the model into hierarchical submodels for generating test sequences, which fulfills the goals of module testing, but not those of system testing. System testing requires test sequences be generated from a fully resolved model, which necessitates refining the toplevel model, that is, by replacing its elements with submodels they represent. If the depth of model hierarchy is high, the number of test sequences along with their length increases resulting in high test costs. For solving this conflict, a novel approach is introduced that generates test sequences based on the top-level model and replaces elements of these sequences by corresponding, optimized test sequences generated by the submodels. To compensate the shortcoming at test accuracy, the present approach selects components that have lowering impact on the overall system reliability. The objective is to increase the reliabilities of these critical components by intensive testing and appropriate correction which, as a consequence, also increases the overall reliability at less test effort without losing accuracy. An empirical study based on a large web-based commercial system is performed to validate the approach and analyze its characteristics, and to discuss its strengths and weaknesses. © 2018 Information Processing Society of Japan.
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    Özellik Yönelimli Ürün Konfigürasyonlarının Olay Sıra Çizgeleri ile Doğrulanması
    (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2018) Tuğlular, Tuğkan; Belli, Fevzi; Öztürk, Dilek
    This study attempts to suggest an approach to systematically test potentially very large number of product variants in feature-oriented software. Feature-oriented software forms a popular concept to efficiently realize software reuse. Developing feature-oriented software is well accepted to accomplish software reuse in an efficient way. Developing product variants by exploiting software reuse requires verification of these variants by exploiting test reuse. However, the reuse of tests in the verification of variants is an underworked topic. In this study, we propose a model-based approach to top-down testing of feature-oriented software that does not have dependency or conflict between features. In the case study, event sequence graphs (ESGs) are used to model the software under consideration and then to generate test cases for positive and negative testing. The generated tests are executed via SahiPro web test automation tool, of which scripts are also automatically generated from ESGs.
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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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    Neden-sonuç Çizgelerinden Test Girişlerinin Oluşturulması
    (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2016) Kavzak, Deniz; Ayav, Tolga; Belli, Fevzi
    Neden-sonuç çizgeleri çok bilinen gereksinim tabanlı yazılım test yöntemlerinden biri olduğu halde Myers tarafıdan önerildiği 1979 yılından beri bu çizgelerden test girişleri üretilmesi konusunda yeterince kapsamlı çalışma yap lmam ıştır. Bu bildiri, çizgelerin Boole ifadelerine dönüştürülmesini ve Boole ifadelerinin testi için önerilmiş olan MI, MAX-A ve CUTPNFP stratejilerini kullanarak test girişleri üretilmesini önermektedir. Mutasyon analizi kullanılarak bu yöntemlerin hata ortaya çıkarma başarımları ölçülmüş ve Myers' n önerdiği orijinal test üretme yöntemiyle kıyaslanmıştır.