Generation of RepairingTransformation for Events SequenceBased GUI Test Suits For Regression

Testing

Synopsis presentation

MOTIVATION

• Today Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) constitute a large part of the software being developed, there are no effective regression testing techniques for GUIs.

PROJECT OBJECTIVES

• To integrate the regression testing technique into a

framework for GUI testing.

• To identify the characteristics of GUI changes that lead to

unusable test cases.

• To identify the characteristics of GUI test cases that make

them unusable.

SCOPE OF PROJECT

• As software modifications from one version to another is complex, it is impossible to develop an automated repairing technique for arbitrary modifications. This research achieves automation for a small class of GUI changes

Our regression testing technique consists of two parts :

»Checker»Repairer

SCOPE OF PROJECT(con.)

CHECKER : Categorizes a test case as being usable or

unusable;If unusable, it also determines if the test case

can be repaired.

REPAIRER :Repairs the unusable and repairable test cases.

PERT CHART

EFG OF VERSIONS

CHECKERUSABLETEST CASES

IMPLEMENTATION

UNUSABLETEST CASES

REPAIREROBSOLETE

REFERENCES

• ATIF M. MEMON (University of Maryland, College Park) Automatically Repairing Event Sequence-Based GUI Test Suites for Regression Testing

• “Hierarchical GUI Test Case Generation Using Automated Planning” by Atif M. Memon, Martha E. Pollack, and Mary Lou Soffa. IEEE Trans. Softw. Eng., vol. 27, no. 2, 2001, pp. 144-155, IEEE Press.

• Atif M. Memon, M.E. Pollack and M.L. Soffa. Using a Goal-driven Approach to Generate Test Cases for GUIs.