NDLI: An Extensible Heuristic-Based Framework for GUI Test Case Maintenance

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	McMaster, S. Memon, A.M.
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) make up a large portion of the code comprising many modern software applications. However, GUI testing differs significantly from testing of traditional software. One respect in which this is true is test case maintenance. Due to the way that GUI test cases are often implemented, relatively minor changes to the construction of the GUI can cause a large number of test case executions to malfunction, often because GUI elements referred to by the test cases have been renamed, moved, or otherwise altered. We posit that a general solution to the problem of GUI test case maintenance must be based on heuristics that attempt to match an application’s GUI elements across versions. We demonstrate the use of some heuristics with framework support. Our tool support is general in that it may be used with other heuristics if needed in the future.
Starting Page	251
Ending Page	254
File Size	268711
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424443567
DOI	10.1109/ICSTW.2009.11
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2009-04-01
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Software testing Software maintenance Java Automation Conferences Educational institutions Test suite management Application software Automatic testing Testing tools User interfaces Graphical user interfaces Testing strategies
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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