Testing Self-Adaptive Systems Using Fault Injection and Combinatorial Testing

Franz Wotawa

doi:10.1109/QRS-C.2016.47

Testing Self-Adaptive Systems Using Fault Injection and Combinatorial Testing

Franz Wotawa^*

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Institute of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (7160)

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Abstract

Verifying and validating systems that can adapt their behavior at runtime is still a research challenge that deserves great attention. In order to assure a certain behavior, we might prove that a self-adaptive system always fulfills certain properties, e.g., always behaving as specified in a given range. Such verification and validation techniques, however, assume the good case, i.e., that the system's environment is working as expected, i.e., that no fault occurs. In this paper, we relax this assumption, and consider testing self-adaptive systems in case of faults. In particular, we show how fault injection techniques and combinatorial testing can be used together for generating tests for self-adaptive systems.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security-Companion, QRS-C 2016
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	305-310
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509037131
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/QRS-C.2016.47
Publication status	Published - 21 Sept 2016
Event	2nd IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security-Companion, QRS-C 2016 - Vienna, Austria Duration: 1 Aug 2016 → 3 Aug 2016

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Conference	2nd IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security-Companion, QRS-C 2016
Country/Territory	Austria
City	Vienna
Period	1/08/16 → 3/08/16

Keywords

combinatorial testing
fault injection
self-adaptive systems
test automation
testing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

Fields of Expertise

Information, Communication & Computing

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Basic - Fundamental (Grundlagenforschung)

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Wotawa, F 2016, Testing Self-Adaptive Systems Using Fault Injection and Combinatorial Testing. in Proceedings - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security-Companion, QRS-C 2016., 7573762, IEEE, pp. 305-310, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security-Companion, QRS-C 2016, Vienna, Austria, 1/08/16. https://doi.org/10.1109/QRS-C.2016.47

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