A DETECTION METHOD OF FEATURE INTERACTIONS FOR TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES USING NEW EXECUTION MODEL

Sachiko Kawada, Masayuki Shimokura, Tadashi Ohta

2006

Abstract

A service, which behaves normally, behaves differently when initiated with another service. This undesirable behavior is called a feature interaction. In investigating the international benchmark for detecting interactions in telecommunication services, it was found that many interactions that do not actually occur (called: “seeming interactions” in this paper) were mis-detected. The reason for mis-detection of seeming interactions is that interactions were detected using a state transition model which does not properly represent the process flow in a real system. Since seeming interactions cause an increase in time taken for solving interactions, avoiding mis-detection is an important issue. In this paper, a problem in implementing a detection system without mis-detecting seeming interactions is clarified and its solution is proposed. In addition, a new interaction detection method, which adopts the proposed solution and is based on a specification execution model which properly reflects the process flow in a real system, is proposed.

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Kawada S., Shimokura M. and Ohta T. (2006). A DETECTION METHOD OF FEATURE INTERACTIONS FOR TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES USING NEW EXECUTION MODEL . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-972-8865-69-6, pages 190-195. DOI: 10.5220/0001310301900195


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft06,
author={Sachiko Kawada and Masayuki Shimokura and Tadashi Ohta},
title={A DETECTION METHOD OF FEATURE INTERACTIONS FOR TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES USING NEW EXECUTION MODEL},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2006},
pages={190-195},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001310301900195},
isbn={978-972-8865-69-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - A DETECTION METHOD OF FEATURE INTERACTIONS FOR TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES USING NEW EXECUTION MODEL
SN - 978-972-8865-69-6
AU - Kawada S.
AU - Shimokura M.
AU - Ohta T.
PY - 2006
SP - 190
EP - 195
DO - 10.5220/0001310301900195