A Systematic Capture and Replay Strategy for Testing Complex GUI Based Java Applications

Ariss, Omar El; Xu, Dianxiang; Dandey, Santosh; Vender, Brad; McClean, Phil; Slator, Brian M.

doi:10.1109/itng.2010.216

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“…Traditionally, GUI function tests were performed by dedicated GUI testers, who would run all functions of the application and verify their correctness. Today, several methods and tools, for example, capture and replay (e.g., [7]) and model-based GUI testing (e.g., [8]), have been developed to help application developers automate GUI function tests.…”

Section: A Gui Function Testsmentioning

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A Novel Tool for Automatic GUI Layout Testing

Hasselknippe

2017

2017 24th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC)

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As mobile apps are expected to run in many different screen sizes, the need to validate the correct positioning and rendering of graphical user interface (GUI) elements in such screens is increasing. In this paper, we first focus on identifying typical layout errors in modern GUIs and categorising them. Then, we implement a tool called Layout Bug Hunter (LBH) to automatically identify if a GUI layout is rendered correctly in different screen sizes. The tool is evaluated on mobile apps and is compared to state-of-the-art layout-testing tools. Results show that LBH can identify all the typical layout errors we categorise, and LBH is more accurate than a layout-testing tool based on image diffing algorithms. In addition, LBH does not require writing layout test scripts manually. LBH is currently implemented on only one mobile app development platform, but it is designed to be portable and extensible. With only limited effort, LBH can be extended to other mobile and web development platforms for layout testing.

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Section: A Gui Function Testsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Novel Tool for Automatic GUI Layout Testing

Hasselknippe

2017

2017 24th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC)

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“…We agree with the authors, but we highlight that in outdoor sensor-based applications require a non trivial capture and replay process, which is the motivation of this work. In [3], [4] studies on capture and replay were presented focusing just at GUI level. Conversely, in [5], the authors present an approach specifically conceived for mobile devices, in which they record and replay Android apps usage traces by replicating GUI gestures and sensor readings.…”

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A Framework for Regression Testing of Outdoor Mobile Applications

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Fedorov

Frajberg

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2017 IEEE/ACM 4th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft)

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Abstract-Outdoor mobile applications are becoming popular in fields such as gaming, tourism and environment monitoring. They rely on the input of multiple, possibly noisy, sensors, such as the camera, GPS, compass and gyroscope. The regression testing of such applications requires the reproduction of the real conditions in which the application works, which are hard to reproduce without automated support. We present a capture & replay framework that automates regression testing of mobile outdoor applications, by recording data streams in real-time on the field from multiple sensors, replays them in lab and computes quality metrics to trace regression errors.

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“…Regarding the creation of automated test cases for GUI-based applications, one can basically have two main approaches: (i) by capture-replay [5,8,22,39,60] with human aid; and (ii) by traversing some GUI model [7,12,36,37] built automatically.…”

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Aiding exploratory testing with pruned GUI models

Reis

Mota

2018

Information Processing Letters

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Exploratory testing is a software testing approach that emphasizes the tester's experience in the attempt to maximize the chances to find bugs and minimize the time effort applied on satisfying such a goal. It is naturally a GUI-oriented testing activity for GUI-based systems. However, in most cases, exploratory testing strategies may not be accurate enough to reach changed code regions. To reduce this gap, in this work, we propose a way of aiding exploratory testing by providing a GUI model of the regions impacted by internal code changes (for example, as result of change requests to fix previous bugs as well as for software improvement). We create such a delimited GUI model by pruning an original GUI model, quickly built by static analysis, using a reachability relation between GUI elements (i.e., windows, buttons, text fields, etc.) and internal source code changes (classes and methods). To illustrate the idea we provide promising data from two experiments, one from the literature and another from our industrial partner.

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A Systematic Capture and Replay Strategy for Testing Complex GUI Based Java Applications

Cited by 19 publications

References 6 publications

A Novel Tool for Automatic GUI Layout Testing

A Novel Tool for Automatic GUI Layout Testing

A Framework for Regression Testing of Outdoor Mobile Applications

Aiding exploratory testing with pruned GUI models

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