Efficient GUI Test Generation by Learning from Tests of Other Apps

Rau, Andreas and Hotzkow, Jenny and Zeller, Andreas
(2018) Efficient GUI Test Generation by Learning from Tests of Other Apps.
In: Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceeedings.
Conference: ICSE International Conference on Software Engineering

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Official URL: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3183440.3195014

Abstract

Generating GUI tests for complex Web applications is hard. There is lots of functionality to explore: The eBay home page, for instance, sports more than 2,000 individual GUI elements that a crawler has to trigger in order to discover the core functionality. We show how to leverage tests of other applications to guide test generation for a new application: Given a test for payments on Amazon, for instance, we can guide test generation on eBay towards payment functionality, exploiting the semantic similarity between UI elements across both applications. Evaluated on three domains, our approach allows to discover “deep” functionality in a few steps, which otherwise would require thousands to millions of crawling interactions.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (A Paper) (Poster)
Conference: ICSE International Conference on Software Engineering
Depositing User: Andreas Rau
Date Deposited: 24 Jul 2018 09:59
Last Modified: 22 Oct 2020 11:45
Primary Research Area: NRA4: Secure Mobile and Autonomous Systems
URI: https://publications.cispa.saarland/id/eprint/2635

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