About: We propose a new Statistical Model Checking (SMC) method to discover bugs in variability-intensive systems (VIS). The state-space of such systems is exponential in the number of variants, which makes the verification problem harder than for classical systems. To reduce verification time, we sample executions from a featured transition system – a model that represents jointly the state spaces of all variants. The combination of this compact representation and the inherent efficiency of SMC allows us to find bugs much faster (up to 16 times according to our experiments) than other methods. As any simulation-based approach, however, the risk of Type-1 error exists. We provide a lower bound and an upper bound for the number of simulations to perform to achieve the desired level of confidence. Our empirical study involving 59 properties over three case studies reveals that our method manages to discover all variants violating 41 of the properties. This indicates that SMC can act as a low-cost-high-reward method for verifying VIS.   Goto Sponge  NotDistinct  Permalink

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  • We propose a new Statistical Model Checking (SMC) method to discover bugs in variability-intensive systems (VIS). The state-space of such systems is exponential in the number of variants, which makes the verification problem harder than for classical systems. To reduce verification time, we sample executions from a featured transition system – a model that represents jointly the state spaces of all variants. The combination of this compact representation and the inherent efficiency of SMC allows us to find bugs much faster (up to 16 times according to our experiments) than other methods. As any simulation-based approach, however, the risk of Type-1 error exists. We provide a lower bound and an upper bound for the number of simulations to perform to achieve the desired level of confidence. Our empirical study involving 59 properties over three case studies reveals that our method manages to discover all variants violating 41 of the properties. This indicates that SMC can act as a low-cost-high-reward method for verifying VIS.
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