# Towards an Automated Unified Framework to Run Applications for Combinatorial Interaction Testing

## TL;DR

This paper introduces a unified, open-source framework for automating the generation, execution, and verification of combinatorial interaction testing (CIT) test suites, demonstrated through an industrial case study on virtualization systems.

## Contribution

It presents a novel integrated framework for CIT that enhances automation and effectiveness, validated by real-world industrial application.

## Key findings

- Framework successfully generates effective CIT test suites
- Automates execution and verification processes
- Detects configuration failures in virtualization systems

## Abstract

Combinatorial interaction testing (CIT) is a well-known technique, but the industrial experience is needed to determine its effectiveness in different application domains. We present a case study introducing a unified framework for generating, executing and verifying CIT test suites, based on the open-source Avocado test framework. In addition, we present a new industrial case study to demonstrate the effectiveness of the framework. This evaluation showed that the new framework can generate, execute, and verify effective combinatorial interaction test suites for detecting configuration failures (invalid configurations) in a virtualization system.