Correspondence validation method for GUI operations and scenarios by operation history analysis

Abstract

Interactions between users and software are usually described as scenarios so that it is easy to reflect users' viewpoints in software development. In many cases, scenarios are written in a natural language so that users can communicate with software developers smoothly. However, it is difficult to validate correspondences between the flows of operations written in scenarios and those in software. We assume that the flows of software can be expressed by the flows of Graphical User Interface (GUI) operations. In this paper, we propose a method for validating the correspondences between the flows of operations in scenarios and those of actual GUIs. This validation can be performed by analyzing the historic data of GUI operations heuristically. The label names on widgets are extracted from the histories, terms corresponding to label names on widgets are extracted from scenarios, and then the orders of appearance of label names and f terms are validated.

Accessibility Evaluation for GUI Software Using Source Programs and Its Evaluation

“…According to Ref. [11], in many cases, instructions for text-field, combo-box and listbox widgets are represented using label widgets. Also, the strategy for obtaining correspondences between label widgets and text-field, combo-box and list-box widgets is described in Ref.…”

“…Also, the strategy for obtaining correspondences between label widgets and text-field, combo-box and list-box widgets is described in Ref. [11].…”

“…[11], to determine the strategies for corresponding label widgets and text-field, combo-box and list-box widgets, we surveyed the GUIs of nine well-known software packages, such as email clients, web browsers and text editors. The results are shown in Table 1.…”

“…In Ref. [11], text-field, combo-box and list-box widgets are called "target widgets", and label widgets corresponding to each target widget are called "instruction labels".…”

“…[11], that is, text-field and combo-box widgets corresponded to instruction labels on the left, while list-box widgets corresponded to instruction labels above. We also determined when label widgets were not located to the left of text-field and combo-box widgets or above listbox widgets; if there were label widgets above text-field and combo-box widgets, the text-field and combo-box widgets corresponded to the label widgets above, and if there were label widgets to the left of list-box widgets, the list-box widgets corresponded to the label widgets to their left.…”