Test Scenario Generation for Feature-Based Context-Oriented Software Systems

Abstract

Feature-based context-oriented programming reconciles ideas from context-oriented programming, feature modelling, and dynamic software product lines. As a result, feature-based context-oriented programming (FBCOP) offers a programming language, architecture, tools, and methodology to develop context-aware software systems. Such systems use contextual information identified in their immediate environment to select and activate appropriate behaviour at runtime. How to test features-based context-oriented software systems is critical to this work and provides the subject of our research. Systems developed using FBCOP represent contextual information via a context model and behaviour via a feature model (using feature modelling). A mapping model details which contexts trigger which features. Testing FBCOP systems is challenging given the exponential