一句话：为网络拓扑测试提出自动判定测试用例适配的物理测试系统并建立逻辑到物理拓扑映射的方法。
论文关注路由器、交换机等通信设备构成的嵌入式系统网络。这类网络可能包含数十台设备，需要在实际硬件上与各种计算元素组合，并在多种具有代表性的配置下进行测试。单个物理网络拓扑可作为测试系统执行大量测试用例，关键在于识别物理拓扑中与每个测试用例所需配置对应的部分。给定一组可用测试系统和大量测试用例，核心问题是：对每个测试用例，判断哪些测试系统适合执行它，并提供将测试用例元素（逻辑网络拓扑）关联到测试系统元素（物理网络拓扑）的映射。摘要未说明具体算法与实验结果。
Communication devices such as routers and switches play a critical role in the reliable functioning of embedded system networks. Dozens of such devices may be part of an embedded system network, and they need to be tested in conjunction with various computational elements on actual hardware, in many different configurations that are representative of actual operating networks. An individual physical network topology can be used as the basis for a test system that can execute many test cases, by identifying the part of the physical network topology that corresponds to the configuration required by each individual test case. Given a set of available test systems and a large number of test cases, the problem is to determine for each test case, which of the test systems are suitable for executing the test case, and to provide the mapping that associates the test case elements (the logical network topology) with the appropriate elements of the test system (the physical network topology).
@inproceedings{paperbot4829,
title = {Automated test mapping and coverage for network topologies},
author = {Per Erik Strandberg and Thomas J. Ostrand and Elaine J. Weyuker and Daniel Sundmark and Wasif Afzal},
booktitle = {ISSTA},
year = {2018},
doi = {10.1145/3213846.3213859}
}