Practical detection of CMS plugin conflicts in large plugin sets

Context: Content Management Systems (CMS), such as WordPress, are a very popular category of software for creating web sites and blogs. These systems typically build on top of plugin architectures. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon that the combined activation of multiple plugins in a CMS web site will produce unexpected behavior. Conflict...

Testing Autonomous Cars for Feature Interaction Failures using Many-Objective Search

Complex systems such as autonomous cars are typically built as a composition of features that are independent units of functionality. Features tend to interact and impact one another’s behavior in unknown ways. A challenge is to detect and manage feature interactions, in particular, those that violate system requirements, hence leading to...