2018/05/30 by Paul Temple, Temple, Paul, Mathieu Acher +7
Computer Science · #Advanced Malware Detection Techniques #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Machine Learning (stat.ML) #Software Engineering (cs.SE) #Software Engineering Research #Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1805.12021
openalex publication_date 2018/05/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Ensuring that all supposedly valid configurations of a software product line (SPL) lead to well-formed and acceptable products is challenging since it is most of the time impractical to enumerate and test all individual products of an SPL. Machine learning classifiers have been recently used to predict the acceptability of products associated with unseen configurations. For some configurations, a tiny change in their feature values can make them pass from acceptable to non-acceptable regarding users' requirements and vice-versa. In this paper, we introduce the idea of leveraging these specific configurations and their positions in the feature space to improve the classifier and therefore the engineering of an SPL. Starting from a variability model, we propose to use Adversarial Machine Learning techniques to create new, adversarial configurations out of already known configurations by modifying their feature values. Using an industrial video generator we show how adversarial configurations can improve not only the classifier, but also the variability model, the variability implementation, and the testing oracle.