Iterative execution-feedback model-directed GUI testing

• Autores: Xun Yuan, Atif M. Memon
• Localización: Information and software technology, ISSN 0950-5849, Vol. 52, Nº 5, 2010, págs. 559-575
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Current fully automatic model-based test-case generation techniques for GUIs employ a static model. Therefore they are unable to leverage certain state-based relationships between GUI events (e.g., one enables the other, one alters the other�s execution) that are revealed at run-time and non-trivial to infer statically. We present ALT � a new technique to generate GUI test cases in batches. Because of its �alternating� nature, ALT enhances the next batch by using GUI run-time information from the current batch. An empirical study on four fielded GUI-based applications demonstrated that ALT was able to detect new 4- and 5-way GUI interaction faults; in contrast, previous techniques, due to their requirement of too many test cases, were unable to even test 4- and 5-way GUI interactions.