Automated web testing based on textual-visual UI patterns

Abstract

Automated software testing is the only resort for delivering quality software, since there are usually large test suites to be executed, especially for regression testing. Though many automated testing tools and techniques have been developed, they still do not solve all problems like cost and maintenance, and they can even be brittle in some situations, thus confining their adoption. To address these issues, we develop a pattern-based automated testing framework, called UTF (User-oriented Testing Framework), for Web applications. UTF encodes textual-visual information about and relationships between widgets into a domain specific language for test scripts based on the underlying invariant structural patterns in the DOM, which allows test scripts to be easily created and maintained. In addition, UTF provides flexible extension and customization capabilities to make it adaptable for various Web-application scenarios. Our experiences show UTF can greatly reduce the cost of adopting automated testing and facilitate its institutionalization.

A survey on software test automation return on investment, in organizations predominantly from Bengaluru, India

“…[40][41][42] UML-based test generation for textual and visual patterns for generating tests is used for functional test coverage. 43 With DevOps, the adoption of continuous integration and development became imperative for automated code deployments. [44][45][46][47] The same is now extended as QAOps for continuous verification for executing automated regression test suites.…”