Challenges in Automated Testing through Graphical User Interface

P.K. Aho; Tanja Vos

doi:10.1109/ICSTW.2018.00038

Challenges in Automated Testing through Graphical User Interface

P.K. Aho, Tanja Vos

Research Program Learning and Innovation in Resilient systems (LIRS)

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Abstract

The widespread use of iterative and incremental processes and continuous integration practices in software development has shortened the development cycles, drastically limiting the time for testing and quality assurance of each release. At the same time the software systems are getting ever more complex, systems of systems with multitude of platforms and devices to support. In practice, unit testing is widely automated but system level testing is more difficult to automate, especially if the system includes graphical user interfaces (GUI) for the end users. This paper describes the challenges of automating the system level testing through GUI in the modern, agile software development environment, and envisions possible future solutions for some of the challenges.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2018 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops (ICSTW)
Publisher	IEEE
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSTW.2018.00038
Publication status	Published - 9 Apr 2018
Event	IEEE Workshop on NEXt level of Test Automation 2018: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops (ICSTW) - AROS CONGRESS CENTER, Västerås, Sweden Duration: 9 Apr 2018 → 9 Apr 2018 https://www.testomatproject.eu/nexta2018/

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Workshop	IEEE Workshop on NEXt level of Test Automation 2018
Abbreviated title	NEXTA
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Västerås
Period	9/04/18 → 9/04/18
Internet address	https://www.testomatproject.eu/nexta2018/

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GUI testing
test automation
model extraction

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