Relationships between Test Suites, Faults, and Fault Detection in GUI Testing

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaymie Strecker ◽  
Atif Memon
Keyword(s):  
Fault Detection ◽  
Gui Testing ◽  
Test Suites

A Graphical User Interface (GUI) Testing Methodology

2009 ◽  
pp. 3037-3054
Author(s):  
Zafar Singhera ◽  
Ellis Horowitz ◽  
Abad Shah
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Software Testing ◽  
Graphical User Interface ◽  
Command Line ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Gui Testing ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
Testing Techniques ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Test Suites

Software testing in general and graphical user interface (GUI) testing in particular is one of the major challenges in the lifecycle of any software system. GUI testing is inherently more difficult than the traditional and command-line interface testing. Some of the factors that make GUI testing different from the traditional software testing and significantly more difficult are: a large number of objects, different look and feel of objects, many parameters associated with each object, progressive disclosure, complex inputs from multiple sources, and graphical outputs. The existing testing techniques for the creation and management of test suites need to be adapted/enhanced for GUIs, and new testing techniques are desired to make the creation and management of test suites more efficient and effective. In this article, a methodology is proposed to create test suites for a GUI. The proposed methodology organizes the testing activity into various levels. The tests created at a particular level can be reused at higher levels. This methodology extends the notion of modularity and reusability to the testing phase. The organization and management of the created test suites resembles closely to the structure of the GUI under test.

scholarly journals A Tester-Assisted Methodology for Test Redundancy Detection

2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Negar Koochakzadeh ◽  
Vahid Garousi
Keyword(s):  
Fault Detection ◽  
False Positive ◽  
Test Suite ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Maintenance Costs ◽  
Detection Ability ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Inspection Process ◽  
Redundancy Detection ◽  
Test Suites

Test redundancy detection reduces test maintenance costs and also ensures the integrity of test suites. One of the most widely used approaches for this purpose is based on coverage information. In a recent work, we have shown that although this information can be useful in detecting redundant tests, it may suffer from large number of false-positive errors, that is, a test case being identified as redundant while it is really not. In this paper, we propose a semiautomated methodology to derive a reduced test suite from a given test suite, while keeping the fault detection effectiveness unchanged. To evaluate the methodology, we apply the mutation analysis technique to measure the fault detection effectiveness of the reduced test suite of a real Java project. The results confirm that the proposed manual interactive inspection process leads to a reduced test suite with the same fault detection ability as the original test suite.

A Graphical User Interface (GUI) Testing Methodology

2010 ◽  
pp. 160-176
Author(s):  
Zafar Singhera ◽  
Ellis Horowitz ◽  
Abad Shah
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Software Testing ◽  
Graphical User Interface ◽  
Command Line ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Gui Testing ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
Testing Techniques ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Test Suites

Software testing in general and graphical user interface (GUI) testing in particular is one of the major challenges in the lifecycle of any software system. GUI testing is inherently more difficult than the traditional and command-line interface testing. Some of the factors that make GUI testing different from the traditional software testing and significantly more difficult are: a large number of objects, different look and feel of objects, many parameters associated with each object, progressive disclosure, complex inputs from multiple sources, and graphical outputs. The existing testing techniques for the creation and management of test suites need to be adapted/enhanced for GUIs, and new testing techniques are desired to make the creation and management of test suites more efficient and effective. In this article, a methodology is proposed to create test suites for a GUI. The proposed methodology organizes the testing activity into various levels. The tests created at a particular level can be reused at higher levels. This methodology extends the notion of modularity and reusability to the testing phase. The organization and management of the created test suites resembles closely to the structure of the GUI under test.

A Graphical User Interface (GUI) Testing Methodology

2009 ◽  
pp. 659-676
Author(s):  
Zafar Singhera ◽  
Ellis Horowitz ◽  
Abad Shah
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Software Testing ◽  
Graphical User Interface ◽  
Command Line ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Gui Testing ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
Testing Techniques ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Test Suites

Software testing in general and graphical user interface (GUI) testing in particular is one of the major challenges in the lifecycle of any software system. GUI testing is inherently more difficult than the traditional and command-line interface testing. Some of the factors that make GUI testing different from the traditional software testing and significantly more difficult are: a large number of objects, different look and feel of objects, many parameters associated with each object, progressive disclosure, complex inputs from multiple sources, and graphical outputs. The existing testing techniques for the creation and management of test suites need to be adapted/enhanced for GUIs, and new testing techniques are desired to make the creation and management of test suites more efficient and effective. In this article, a methodology is proposed to create test suites for a GUI. The proposed methodology organizes the testing activity into various levels. The tests created at a particular level can be reused at higher levels. This methodology extends the notion of modularity and reusability to the testing phase. The organization and management of the created test suites resembles closely to the structure of the GUI under test.

scholarly journals Can fault-exposure-potential estimates improve the fault detection abilities of test suites?

2002 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 197-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Chen ◽  
Roland H. Untch ◽  
Gregg Rothermel ◽  
Sebastian Elbaum ◽  
Jeffery von Ronne
Keyword(s):  
Fault Detection ◽  
Exposure Potential ◽  
Test Suites
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