CATS design: a context-aware test suite design process

Felyppe Rodrigues; Santiago Matalonga; Guilherme Horta Travassos

doi:10.1145/2993288.2993293

CATS design: a context-aware test suite design process

Felyppe Rodrigues
, Santiago Matalonga
, Guilherme Horta Travassos

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Context-awareness is the ability of a system to gather information from its context and adapt its behaviors. This feature makes the testing of Context-aware software systems more challenging. Based on this assumption, this research proposes an approach to design functional test cases for context-aware software systems, the CATS Design. In its development, ideas from other domains presenting similar issues were tailored to the problem of testing context-aware software systems. This paper presents the design process of CATS Design, and its two empirical evaluation stages: 1) through a proof of concept, and 2) with an observational study involving eight undergraduate students in Uruguay. The results suggest that it is feasible to apply CATS Design for designing test cases for context-aware software systems.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 1st Brazilian Symposium on Systematic and Automated Software Testing - SAST
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	ACM Press
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781450347662
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2993288.2993293
Publication status	Published - 19 Sept 2016
Externally published	Yes

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Characterizing testing methods for context-aware software systems: results from a quasi-systematic literature review
Matalonga, S., Rodrigues, F. & Travassos, G. H., 1 Sept 2017, In: Journal of Systems and Software. 131, p. 1-21 21 p.
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Characterizing testing methods for context-aware software systems: results from a quasi-systematic literature review

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