Firewall regression testing of GUI sequences and their interactions

White, Lee; Almezen, H.; Sastry, Shivakumar

doi:10.1109/icsm.2003.1235450

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“…White et al [White et al 2003] have extended their work on complete interactions sequences (CIS) to develop a new firewall [White et al 2005] regression testing approach for GUIs. A CIS is a state-machine model that partitions the GUI state space into different machines based on user tasks [White and Almezen 2000].…”

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Automatically repairing event sequence-based GUI test suites for regression testing

Memon

2008

ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.

118

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Although graphical user interfaces (GUIs) constitute a large part of the software being developed today and are typically created using rapid prototyping, there are no effective regression testing techniques for GUIs. The needs of GUI regression testing differ from those of traditional software. When the structure of a GUI is modified, test cases from the original GUI's suite are either reusable or unusable on the modified GUI. Because GUI test case generation is expensive, our goal is to make the unusable test cases usable, thereby helping to retain the suite's event coverage. The idea of reusing these unusable (obsolete) test cases has not been explored before. This paper shows that a large number of test cases become unusable for GUIs. It presents a new GUI regression testing technique that first automatically determines the usable and unusable test cases from a test suite after a GUI modification, then determines the unusable test cases that can be repaired so that they can execute on the modified GUI, and finally uses repairing transformations to repair the test cases. This regression testing technique along with four repairing transformations has been implemented. An empirical study for four open-source applications demonstrates that (1) this approach is effective in that many of the test cases can be repaired, and is practical in terms of its time performance, (2) certain types of test cases are more prone to becoming unusable, and (3) certain types of "dominator" events, when modified, make a large number of test cases unusable.

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Automatically repairing event sequence-based GUI test suites for regression testing

Memon

2008

ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.

118

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“…The other significant work on GUI testing is by White et al [62,64] who model a GUI in terms of "responsibilities" (user tasks) and their corresponding "complete interaction sequences" (CIS). A CIS is a sequence of GUI objects and selections that may be used to complete a responsibility.…”

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Developing cost-effective model-based techniques for GUI testing

Xie

2006

Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Software Engineering

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Most of today's software users interact with the software through a graphical user interface (GUI), which constitutes as much as 45-60% of the total code. The correctness of the GUI is necessary to ensure the correctness of the overall software. Although GUIs have become ubiquitous, testing GUIs for functional correctness has remained a neglected research area. Existing GUI testing techniques are extremely resource intensive primarily because GUIs have very large input spaces and evolve frequently. This dissertation overcomes the limitations of existing techniques by developing a process with supporting models, techniques, and tools for continuous integration testing of evolving GUI-based applications. The key idea of this process is to create three concentric testing loops, each with specific GUI testing goals, resource usage, and targeted feedback. has not given me time. It has been a pleasure to work with and learn from such an extraordinary individual. This experience will benefit me forever.

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“…Models are needed for high quality system testing in GUIs, since they guide test generation and ensure sufficient coverage. Yet techniques that extract these models use heuristics to approximate the interface behavior -a tradeoff that enables scalability [1]- [4].…”

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AutoInSpec: Using Missing Test Coverage to Improve Specifications in GUIs

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Huang

Memon

2012

2012 IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering

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Abstract-Developers of a software's graphical user interface (GUI) often fail to document the interface specifications. Without these, models used for automated test generation and execution remain imperfect and incomplete. This leads to unexpected behavior that creates unrecoverable situations for test harnesses, and missed coverage. In this paper, we present AutoInSpec, a technique to infer an important class of specifications, temporal and state-based invariants between GUI events that have been incorrectly modeled. Unlike existing specification mining approaches that require full execution traces, or source code, and that mine all invariants, we simplify the problem. We guide AutoInSpec with coverage criteria and use a previously developed repair framework that builds coverage-adequate test suites, removing unexecutable sub-sequences from consideration. These failing sub-sequences are input to a logic-based inference engine, armed with known invariant templates, to obtain the missing specifications. We validate AutoInSpec on a set of well studied GUI applications.

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Firewall regression testing of GUI sequences and their interactions

Cited by 28 publications

References 20 publications

Automatically repairing event sequence-based GUI test suites for regression testing

Automatically repairing event sequence-based GUI test suites for regression testing

Developing cost-effective model-based techniques for GUI testing

AutoInSpec: Using Missing Test Coverage to Improve Specifications in GUIs

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