TY - GEN
T1 - Systematic reduction of GUI test sequences
AU - Cheng, Lin
AU - Yang, Zijiang
AU - Wang, Chao
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/11/20
Y1 - 2017/11/20
N2 - Graphic user interface (GUI) is an integral part of many software applications. However, GUI testing remains a challenging task. The main problem is to generate a set of high-quality test cases, i.e., sequences of user events to cover the often large input space. Since manually crafting event sequences is labor-intensive and automated testing tools often have poor performance, we propose a new GUI testing framework to efficiently generate progressively longer event sequences while avoiding redundant sequences. Our technique for identifying the redundancy among these sequences relies on statically checking a set of simple and syntactic-level conditions, whose reduction power matches and sometimes exceeds that of classic techniques based on partial order reduction. We have evaluated our method on 17 Java Swing applications. Our experimental results show the new technique, while being sound and systematic, can achieve more than 10X reduction in the number of test sequences compared to the state-of-the-art GUI testing tools.
AB - Graphic user interface (GUI) is an integral part of many software applications. However, GUI testing remains a challenging task. The main problem is to generate a set of high-quality test cases, i.e., sequences of user events to cover the often large input space. Since manually crafting event sequences is labor-intensive and automated testing tools often have poor performance, we propose a new GUI testing framework to efficiently generate progressively longer event sequences while avoiding redundant sequences. Our technique for identifying the redundancy among these sequences relies on statically checking a set of simple and syntactic-level conditions, whose reduction power matches and sometimes exceeds that of classic techniques based on partial order reduction. We have evaluated our method on 17 Java Swing applications. Our experimental results show the new technique, while being sound and systematic, can achieve more than 10X reduction in the number of test sequences compared to the state-of-the-art GUI testing tools.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85041444718
U2 - 10.1109/ASE.2017.8115696
DO - 10.1109/ASE.2017.8115696
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:85041444718
T3 - ASE 2017 - Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
SP - 849
EP - 860
BT - ASE 2017 - Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
A2 - Nguyen, Tien N.
A2 - Rosu, Grigore
A2 - Di Penta, Massimiliano
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2017
Y2 - 30 October 2017 through 3 November 2017
ER -