Specification-based Testing for Gui-based Applications

@article{citeulike:2176100, abstract = {The development of GUI-based applications has raised a lot of new issues, one of them being how to automate effective testing for applications with complicated graphical user interactions. In this paper, we discuss the architectural issues and the implementation concerns of our approach to an automated specification-based testing technique for GUI-based applications. This approach is carried out by enriching existing architecture for automated specification-based testing. An essential part of our work is a visual environment to obtain test specifications. This environment pre-runs the Application Under Test (AUT) under its own control, with two prominent characteristics: First, testers can edit test specifications within the true GUI environment of the AUT. Second, the recorded input and output contain the same references as those in the AUT, so that the test cases generated from the edited specification can be used directly by test oracles during the automated testing procedure.}, author = {Chen, Jessica and Subramaniam, Suganthan }, citeulike-article-id = {2176100}, doi = {10.1023/A:1021634422504}, journal = {Software Quality Journal}, keywords = {2002, gui, java, read, testing}, month = {November}, number = {3}, pages = {205--224}, posted-at = {2008-02-16 13:21:32}, priority = {0}, title = {Specification-based Testing for Gui-based Applications}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1021634422504}, volume = {10}, year = {2002} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2176100 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2176100 TI - Specification-based Testing for Gui-based Applications JF - Software Quality Journal VL - 10 IS - 3 SP - 205 EP - 224 N2 - The development of GUI-based applications has raised a lot of new issues, one of them being how to automate effective testing for applications with complicated graphical user interactions. In this paper, we discuss the architectural issues and the implementation concerns of our approach to an automated specification-based testing technique for GUI-based applications. This approach is carried out by enriching existing architecture for automated specification-based testing. An essential part of our work is a visual environment to obtain test specifications. This environment pre-runs the Application Under Test (AUT) under its own control, with two prominent characteristics: First, testers can edit test specifications within the true GUI environment of the AUT. Second, the recorded input and output contain the same references as those in the AUT, so that the test cases generated from the edited specification can be used directly by test oracles during the automated testing procedure. KW - 2002 KW - gui KW - java KW - read KW - testing AU - Chen, Jessica AU - Subramaniam, Suganthan PY - 2002/11/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1021634422504 ER -