Software Test Automation practices in agile development environment: An industry experience report

Collins, Eliane; Lucena, Vicente Ferreira de

doi:10.1109/iwast.2012.6228991

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“…For example, the tools Selenium IDE and Selenium WebDriver employ this approach and offer different ways to locate web page elements. DOM-based tools have reached a high level of maturity and are widely used both in academia and industry [2,3,[14][15][16].…”

Section: Dom-based Locatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Robula+: an algorithm for generating robust XPath locators for web testing

Leotta

Stocco

Ricca

et al. 2016

J. Softw. Evol. and Proc.

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Automated test scripts are used with success in many web development projects, so as to automatically verify key functionalities of the web application under test, reveal possible regressions and run a large number of tests in short time. However, the adoption of automated web testing brings advantages but also novel problems, among which the test code fragility problem. During the evolution of the web application, existing test code may easily break and testers have to correct it. In the context of automated DOM-based web testing, one of the major costs for evolving the test code is the manual effort necessary to repair broken web page element locators -lines of source code identifying the web elements (e.g. form fields and buttons) to interact with.In this work, we present ROBULA+, a novel algorithm able to generate robust XPath-based locatorslocators that are likely to work correctly on new releases of the web application. We compared ROBULA+ with several state of the practice/art XPath locator generator tools/algorithms. Results show that XPath locators produced by ROBULA+ are by far the most robust. Indeed, ROBULA+ reduces the locators' fragility on average by 90% w.r.t. absolute locators and by 63% w.r.t. Selenium IDE locators.

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Section: Dom-based Locatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Robula+: an algorithm for generating robust XPath locators for web testing

Leotta

Stocco

Ricca

et al. 2016

J. Softw. Evol. and Proc.

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“…Selenium 4 is one of the most popular suites for automating web application testing and it is employed in many industrial projects [2,3]. Essentially, this suite is composed of two tools: Selenium IDE 5 and Selenium WebDriver 6 .…”

Section: Selenium Webdrivermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The most efficient one, according to Selenium WebDriver developers 7 , is searching by their ID values (e.g., locate the password input field, in our example, by searching the value PW among the ID values). In case the ID attributes are not inserted in the HTML tags a XPath locator can be alternatively used (e.g., locate the password input field using the following XPath expression: /html/body/form/input [2]). Finally, the LinkText locator allows to select a hyperlink in a web page making use of its displayed text (i.e., the string contained between <a ...> and </a>).…”

Section: Ui Locatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparing the maintainability of selenium WebDriver test suites employing different locators: a case study

Leotta

Clerissi

Ricca

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the 2013 International Workshop on Joining AcadeMiA and Industry Contributions to Testing Automation

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Test suite maintenance tends to have the biggest impact on the overall cost of test automation. Frequently modifications applied on a web application lead to have one or more test cases broken and repairing the test suite is a time-consuming and expensive task.This paper reports on an industrial case study conducted in a small Italian company investigating on the analysis of the effort to repair web test suites implemented using different UI locators (e.g., Identifiers and XPath).The results of our case study indicate that ID locators used in conjunction with LinkText is the best solution among the considered ones in terms of time required (and LOCs to modify) to repair the test suite to the new release of the application.

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“…This is confirmed by studies of Oliveira [27] and Collins [28]. If one tool is not working well for the project, in the next iteration, agile teams should try something new [28].…”

Section: Discussion and Related Workmentioning

confidence: 54%

“…This is confirmed by studies of Oliveira [27] and Collins [28]. If one tool is not working well for the project, in the next iteration, agile teams should try something new [28]. Yoder [29] discussed the importance of selecting automation tools and when automated tests should be run under "Automate First" pattern.…”

Section: Discussion and Related Workmentioning

confidence: 82%

Adopting Test Automation on Agile Development Projects: A Grounded Theory Study of Indian Software Organizations

Tyagi

Sibal

Suri

2017

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Abstract. The role of test automation in Agile Software Development projects is of paramount importance. It is absolutely necessary to automate tests on agile projects as the number of test cases will continue to grow with each successive sprint. Through a Grounded Theory study involving 38 agile practitioners from 18 different software organizations in India, we identified five key challenges faced by agile practitioners and different strategies to overcome those challenges while practicing test automation. Understanding these challenges and strategies would help agile teams in streamlining their test automation practices.

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Software Test Automation practices in agile development environment: An industry experience report

Cited by 31 publications

References 4 publications

Robula+: an algorithm for generating robust XPath locators for web testing

Robula+: an algorithm for generating robust XPath locators for web testing

Comparing the maintainability of selenium WebDriver test suites employing different locators: a case study

Adopting Test Automation on Agile Development Projects: A Grounded Theory Study of Indian Software Organizations

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