Inferring User Interface Patterns from Execution Traces of Web Applications

Nabuco, Miguel; Paiva, Ana C. R.; Faria, João Pascoal

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-09156-3_23

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“…It is very flexible, since it can be customized/configured to model and test any UI. Moreover, this pattern language has been used to model and test several fielded applications in [22,3,19,23,31]. We were able to find faults in the software, proving the benefit and applicability of the pattern language.…”

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Towards a pattern language for model-based GUI testing

Moreira

Paiva

2014

Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs

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Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) have become popular as they appear in everydays' software. GUIs have become an ideal way of interacting with computer programs, making the software friendlier to its users. GUIs have grown, and so has the usage of UI Patterns featured in GUIs. UI Patterns are recurring solutions to solve common GUI design problems. We developed the notion of UI Test Patterns that, are able to test different implementations of UI Patterns. Therefore, we created a new methodology called PatternBased GUI Testing (PBGT) that aims at systematizing and automating the GUI testing process. PBGT samples the input space using UI Test Patterns, which provide a reusable and configurable test strategy, in order to test a GUI that was implemented using a set of UI Patterns. In this paper we present three UI Test Patterns: Login, Master/Detail and Sort.

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Section: Further Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 94%

Towards a pattern language for model-based GUI testing

Moreira

Paiva

2014

Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs

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“…PBGT has the following main components: [24] ; • PARADIGM-RE -A reverse engineering tool that extracts part of the PARADIGM models from existent web applications [28]. The activity diagram of the PBGT Tool set is shown in Figure 1.…”

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Pattern Based GUI Testing for Mobile Applications

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Paiva

Nabuco

2014

2014 9th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology

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Abstract-This paper presents a study aiming to assess the feasibility of using the Pattern Based GUI Testing approach, PBGT, to test mobile applications. PBGT is a new model based testing approach that aims to increase systematization, reusability and diminish the effort in modelling and testing. It is based on the concept of User Interface Test Patterns (UITP) that contain generic test strategies for testing common recurrent behaviour, the so-called UI Patterns, on GUIs through its possible different implementations after a configuration step. Although PBGT was developed having web applications in mind, it is possible to develop drivers for other platforms in order to test a wide set of applications. However, web and mobile applications are different and only the development of a new driver to execute test cases over mobile applications may not be enough. This paper describes a study aiming to identify the adaptations and updates the PBGT should undergo in order to test mobile applications.

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