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UI-Test: A Model-Based Framework for Visual UI Testing– Qualitative and Quantitative Evaluation

  • Universidad de Cuenca

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Abstract

During the testing stage in the software development life cycle, developers can take advantage of combining the requirements specification with the testing specification. This will allow the specification of the tests to require less manual effort, since, they can be defined or generated automatically from the requirements specification. The requirements specification will thus be based on a more structured language, gaining in quality and reducing ambiguity, inconsistency, and inaccuracy. In this research work, the UI-Test model-based methodological framework and its tool support are proposed. Both of these can generate evidence based on the specification of agile user stories that are used in the validation of the functional requirements that must be included in the final version of the user interfaces of the developed software. Our proposal makes use of two model transformations to obtain the test scripts from user stories that will be applied in the process using SikuliX for automated visual UI testing. The results of the empirical evaluation of the effectiveness and user experience of the framework and its tool support suggest that the UI-Test tool can benefit testers by confirming that the actions proposed in the user stories can be run on the UIs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEvaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - 16th International Conference, ENASE 2021, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsRaian Ali, Hermann Kaindl, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Leszek A. Maciaszek
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages328-355
Number of pages28
ISBN (Print)9783030966478
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event16th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 26 Apr 202127 Apr 2021

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume1556 CCIS
ISSN (Print)1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)1865-0937

Conference

Conference16th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period26/04/2127/04/21

Keywords

  • Model-based testing
  • Test scripts
  • Testing framework
  • UI-Test
  • User stories
  • Visual UI testing

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