Integration of Specification-Based and CR-Based Approaches for GUI Testing

Chen, Woei-Kae; Tsai, Tung-Hung; Chao, Hung-Hsing

doi:10.1109/aina.2005.223

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“…It may also be difficult to maintain, when the system specification changes. Furthermore, test-first programming can never be applied with CP tools, since nothing can be captured in advance [3]. Therefore, there are researches studying specification based approaches for GUI testing .These researches aim at defining GUI specification languages for the definition of system behavior and then generate test scripts based on the specification languages.…”

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“…Therefore, there are researches studying specification based approaches for GUI testing .These researches aim at defining GUI specification languages for the definition of system behavior and then generate test scripts based on the specification languages. The test scripts written in these specification languages can be automatically executed to perform verification of the AUT [3]. It contains methods to reproduce all user actions that can be performed on Swing/AWT GUI components, such as pushing buttons or typing text.…”

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A Model for GUI Automated Testing Framework in Software System

Jayagopal¹,

Gunasekaran²

2013

IJCA

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A pervasive method for GUI testing is the Capture and Playback (CP) technique. This commonly used technique cannot be used until an Application Under Test (AUT) is completely developed. In this paper we propose a specification driven approach to test GUI-Based java programs as an alternative to the CP technique. We introduce a GUI-event test specification language based on Java Script from which an automated test engine is generated. The esteem of Java as a scripting language is its ease of use and its standard format that have made writing a test script using our proposed specification language makes it an easy task. Beside the ability to test AUT before being completely developed we have implemented our approach that can generate the test specification file for an already existing AUT. The Tool generates GUI events, where Captures and Playback event responses to automatic verification of the results for the test cases which are written to a test log file. This approach supports M-version testing, where each version of the application is intended to satisfy the same specification.

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A Model for GUI Automated Testing Framework in Software System

Jayagopal¹,

Gunasekaran²

2013

IJCA

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“…Thus, the captured test scripts are more of a description of the system behavior than a system specification, also it is difficult to maintain when the system specification changes. Furthermore, test-first programming can never be applied with CR tools, since nothing can be captured in advance [3]. Therefore, there are researches studying specification based approaches for GUI testing [4] and [11].…”

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“…The aim of these researches is defining GUI specification language for the system behavior and then generates test scripts based on that specification language. The test scripts written in that specification language can be automatically executed to perform verification of the AUT [3]. These researches have defined a specification language for almost all GUI components except menus i.e.…”

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Automated testing of java menu-based GUIs using XML visual editor

Salam

Keshk

Ismail

et al. 2007

2007 International Conference on Computer Engineering &Amp; Systems

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A common method for GUI testing is the capture and replay (CR) technique. While the commonly used of CR technique can not be used until an Application Under Test (AUT) is completely developed. In this paper we propose a specificationdriven approach to test menu-based java GUI programs as an alternative to the CR technique. We introduce a GUI-event test specification language based on XML from which an automated test engine is generated. The popularity of XML as a scripting language is ease of use and its standard format. Along with our visual test scripts editor have made writing a test script using our proposed method is easy task. Beside the ability to test AUT before being completely developed, we have implemented another visual module that can generate the test specification file for an already existing AUT by using only the executable file of the program (.class). The engine generates GUI events and captures its responses automatically to verify the results of the test cases, which are written to a test log file. This engine supports the menu-based GUIs that became very popular these days in programs interfaces.

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