Software Product Lines System Test Case Tool: A Proposal

Nowadays the decision whether to work with Software Product Lines (SPL) or not becomes a binding requirement for the strategic planning of companies. Learning how to choose the ideal tools to test a SPL is beneficial for companies in this planning process. Even though the ascending number of available software engineering testing tools, SPL testing lacks specific tools capable of supporting the SPL Testing Process and managing the variability of test assets. This paper evaluates how to reduce the effort during the SPL Testing Process and consequently, how to make the variability of test assets manageable. We propose a software product line testing tool to build system tests from use cases that addresses challenges for SPL Testing we identified in a literature review. Keywords-Software Testing; Software Product Lines; Software Reuse; Testing Tools;