A Review of Scripting Techniques Used in Automated Software Testing

Hanna, Milad; El-Haggar, Nahla; Sami, M.

doi:10.14569/ijacsa.2014.050128

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“…A limitation of this framework is that the test scripts generated are not reusable since the test data are hardcoded into the script. In addition, including the script developed using this framework is not maintainable and scalable since any changes to the application induce modification and reworking of the test scripts [2,4].…”

Section: Linear Automation Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Applicability of Automated Testing Frameworks for Mobile Application Testing: A Systematic Literature Review

Berihun,

Dongmo,

Van der Poll

2023

Computers

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Mobile applications are developed and released to the market every day. Due to the intense usage of mobile applications, their quality matters. End users’ rejection of mobile apps increases from time to time due to their low quality and lack of proper mobile testing. This indicates that the role of mobile application testing is crucial in the acceptance of a given software product. Test engineers use automation frameworks for testing their mobile applications. Automated testing brings several advantages to the development team. For example, automated checks are used for regression testing, fast execution of test scripts, and providing quick feedback for the development team. A systematic literature review has been used to identify and collect evidence on automated testing frameworks for mobile application testing. A total of 56 relevant research papers were identified that were published in prominent journals and conferences until February 2023. The results were summarized and tabulated to provide insights into the suitability of the existing automation testing framework for mobile application testing. We identified the major test concerns and test challenges in performing mobile automation testing. The results showed that the keyword-driven testing framework is the widely used approach, but recently, hybrid approaches have been adopted for mobile test automation. On the other hand, this review indicated that the existing frameworks need to be customized using reusable and domain-specific keywords to make them suitable for mobile application testing. Considering this, this study proposes an architecture, the mobile-based automation testing framework (MATF). In the future, to address the mobile application testing challenges, the authors will work on implementing the proposed framework (MATF).

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Section: Linear Automation Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Testing mobile apps manually has its bottlenecks. This includes repetitiveness and its time-consuming nature [1][2][3]. Nevertheless, much of mobile app testing is still performed manually, thus prone to errors, inefficiency, and high cost.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Applicability of Automated Testing Frameworks for Mobile Application Testing: A Systematic Literature Review

Berihun,

Dongmo,

Van der Poll

2023

Computers

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“…Hanna et al [7] make comparisons between various scripting techniques that used in automated testing. The study presents an overview of different scripting techniques.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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Novel Framework for Automation Testing of Mobile Applications using Appium

Alotaibi¹,

Qureshi²

2017

IJMECS

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Abstract-Testing is an important phase in system development to improve the quality, reliability, and performance of software systems. As more and more mobile applications are developed, testing and quality assurance are vital to developing successful products. Users are widely opening browsers on mobiles to interact with web pages. It is important to ensure that our web application will be compatible with mobile browsers and applications. There is a need for a framework that can be applied to test different mobile browsers and applications. This paper proposes a novel framework for automation testing of mobile applications using Appium tool. The novel framework uses automation testing to reduce effort and speed up the process of automated testing on a mobile device. Survey is conducted to validate the proposed framework.

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“…The quality of a software product depends on several parameters, such as the response time, performance, reliability, maintainability, correctness, testability, usability, and reusability, to mention just a few. Software testing is time-consuming, and 40-50% of a project's budget (in some cases, even 80% [3]) can be spent on this operation according to [1,2,4]. Nonetheless, researchers have shown [2,4] that software testing is not a "silver bullet" that can guarantee the high quality of a software product.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Software testing is time-consuming, and 40-50% of a project's budget (in some cases, even 80% [3]) can be spent on this operation according to [1,2,4]. Nonetheless, researchers have shown [2,4] that software testing is not a "silver bullet" that can guarantee the high quality of a software product. Complete testing, i.e., discovering and fixing all errors, is practically impossible because the testing process cannot be exhaustive.…”

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Software Platform for the Comprehensive Testing of Transmission Protocols Developed in GNU Radio

Stef,

Polgar

2024

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With the constant growth of software-defined radio (SDR) technologies in fields related to wireless communications, the need for efficient ways of testing and evaluating the physical-layer (PHY) protocols developed for these technologies in real-life traffic scenarios has become more critical. This paper proposes a software testbed that enhances the creation of network environments that allow GNU radio applications to be fed with test traffic in a simple way and through an interoperable interface. This makes the use of any traffic generator possible—existing ones or one that is custom-built—to evaluate a GNU radio application. In addition, this paper proposes an efficient way to collect PHY-specific monitoring data to improve the performance of the critical components of the message delivery path by employing the protocol buffers library. This study considers the entire testing and evaluation ecosystem and demonstrates how PHY-specific monitoring information is collected, handled, stored, and processed as time series to allow complex visualization and real-time monitoring.

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A Review of Scripting Techniques Used in Automated Software Testing

Cited by 10 publications

References 6 publications

The Applicability of Automated Testing Frameworks for Mobile Application Testing: A Systematic Literature Review

The Applicability of Automated Testing Frameworks for Mobile Application Testing: A Systematic Literature Review

Novel Framework for Automation Testing of Mobile Applications using Appium

Software Platform for the Comprehensive Testing of Transmission Protocols Developed in GNU Radio

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