NDLI: GUI Interaction Testing: Incorporating Event Context

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Xun Yuan Cohen, M.B. Memon, A.M.
Copyright Year	1976
Abstract	Graphical user interfaces (GUIs), due to their event-driven nature, present an enormous and potentially unbounded way for users to interact with software. During testing, it is important to “adequately cover” this interaction space. In this paper, we develop a new family of coverage criteria for GUI testing grounded in combinatorial interaction testing. The key motivation of using combinatorial techniques is that they enable us to incorporate “context” into the criteria in terms of event combinations, sequence length, and by including all possible positions for each event. Our new criteria range in both efficiency (measured by the size of the test suite) and effectiveness (the ability of the test suites to detect faults). In a case study on eight applications, we automatically generate test cases and systematically explore the impact of context, as captured by our new criteria. Our study shows that by increasing the event combinations tested and by controlling the relative positions of events defined by the new criteria, we can detect a large number of faults that were undetectable by earlier techniques.
Sponsorship	IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) IEEE Computer Society
Starting Page	559
Ending Page	574
Page Count	16
File Size	4194747
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00985589
Volume Number	37
Issue Number	4
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2011-07-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Graphical user interfaces System testing Software testing Automatic testing Fault detection Context modeling Computer science Software performance Logic testing User interfaces GUITAR testing system. GUI testing automated testing model-based testing combinatorial interaction testing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Software

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