Product family testing: a survey

In this paper we discuss the current state of product family testing. Testing, unlike other areas of software development, has received only little attention in this context despite the problems directly rising from scale, reuse and variability. We present the current approaches to product family testing methodology and processes. We also evaluate the current state-of-the-art in product family testing and highlight problems that need to be addressed in the future.

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