Self-test components for highly reconfigurable systems

Verification of component-based systems presents new challenges not yet completely addressed by existing testing techniques. This paper proposes a new approach for automatically testing highly reconfigurable component-based systems, i.e., systems that can be obtained by changing some components. The paper presents an industrial case that motivates our research and proposes a testing infrastructure that tracks run-time information for components. The collected information is used for automatic testing new versions of existing components and new configurations of existing systems. © 2003 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.