Dynamic plans for integration testing of self-adaptive software systems

Abstract

Self-adaptive software systems are able to modify their own structure and/or behaviour at run-time in order to cope with changes. During software self-adaptation, new components may be incorporated to the software system. One crucial aspect when incorporating new components is to test them for guaranteeing that they can interoperate as specified. However, this aspect has been often neglected when considering architectural reconfiguration. To deal with this problem, this paper presents an approach for the dynamic generation of plans for conducting the integration testing of self-adaptive software systems. In order to evaluate our approach, we have developed a prototype application that has been used to conduct some experiments, and to demonstrate the feasibility of our approach.