Web-based tool for automatic acceptance test execution and scripting for programmers and customers

Araújo, Bruno César Pino Oliveira de; Rocha, Anne Caroline da Silva; Xavier, Arthur; Muniz, Ana Isabella; Garcia, Francilene Procpio

doi:10.1145/1352694.1352752

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“…The automatic test build can be composed by unit-tests, integration tests, acceptance tests, among others [2]. For "Web 2.0" applications, the test results impact directly in the decision of whether a software should be deployed or not.…”

Section: Acceptance Tests For Accessibil-ity Requirementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Acceptance Tests operate in the highest layer of an application: the user interface [2]. They consider the user view of the software in order to verify quality attributes.…”

Section: Acceptance Tests For Accessibil-ity Requirementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this strategy, the test cases reflect user requirements as User Stories [2]. It uses external interface assertions, while executing actions that represent real user interaction scenarios, that would be executed if the software was in production.…”

Section: Acceptance Tests For Accessibil-ity Requirementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Using acceptance tests to validate accessibility requirements in RIA

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2012

Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility

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Accessibility stands as a quality requirement for Web applications. However, current accessibility automatic evaluation tools are not capable of evaluating DOM dynamic generated content that characterizes Ajax applications and RIAs -Rich Internet Applications. In this context, this paper describes an approach for testing accessibility requirements in RIA, by using acceptance tests. The authors had implemented a set of assistive technology user scenarios in the acceptance tests, in order to guarantee keyboard accessibility in web applications. As the scenarios were implemented as acceptance tests scenarios, they provide accessibility analysis over all layers of the software, from server-side to client-side implementations (JavaScript and dynamically generated DOM elements) in RIA. The test scenarios are automatically executed, and by doing so, fit the Continuous Integration process of constant delivery of new functionalities in Web projects.

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Section: Acceptance Tests For Accessibil-ity Requirementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Acceptance Tests operate in the highest layer of an application: the user interface [2]. They consider the user view of the software in order to verify quality attributes.…”

Section: Acceptance Tests For Accessibil-ity Requirementsmentioning

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Using acceptance tests to validate accessibility requirements in RIA

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2012

Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility

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“…A diminuição do tempo de integração do processo é um resultado do uso de estratégias de testes automáticos que melhoram a comunicação, permitem melhor visibilidade do estado de um projeto e reduzem os riscos de desenvolvimento (Kim et al, 2009). Dentre as estratégias de testes automáticos que podem ser utilizadas em um processo de Integração Contínua destacam-se: os Testes Unitários, os Testes de Integração, os AT, entre outros (Araújo et al, 2007). Essas estratégias de teste são utilizadas com o objetivo de garantir a qualidade do software sendo desenvolvido.…”

Section: Testes De Aceitação (At)unclassified

“…O AT constitui uma das estratégias de teste utilizadas em um processo de Integração Contínua e é definido como teste formal conduzido para determinar se um sistema satisfaz ou não os critérios de aceitação e permitir que os usuários determinem se o sistema é aceitável ou não (IEEE, 1986). Os AT operam na camada mais alta de uma aplicação: na interface do usuário (Araújo et al, 2007). Dessa forma, consideram a perspectiva do usuário para validar a qualidade da aplicação.…”

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Avaliação automática de acessibilidade em RIA

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Agradecimentos À professora Dra. Renata Pontin de Mattos Fortes, por todo seu apoio durante todo o projeto; aos colegas e amigos, por suas valiosas contribuições e enriquecimento da tese; aos pais, pela compreensão e apoio presentes em todos os momentos; a Rejane Kiyomi Furuya, pelo amor; e a Deus que iluminou meu caminho durante esta caminhada.ii Often it appears that there is no better way to solve a problem than to try all possible solutions. This approach, called exhaustive search, is almost always slow, but sometimes it is better than nothing. Ian Parberryiii tese contribuem para o processo de Engenharia Web de aplicações ricas de Internet acessíveis. Palavras-chave: Acessibilidade na Web, Engenharia Web, ARIA, RIA e Web 2.0. v Abstract W ith the increased popularity of the Web 2.0 and RIA -Rich Internet Applications, web applications rely more and more in Ja-vaScript to implement richer and more complex interaction mechanisms in the Web platform. Since these mechanisms, frequently, generate dynamic updates to the DOM -Document Object Model structure of a webpage and require visual perception of users to notify them about these changes in the interface, users that interact with the Web through usage of Assistive Technologies such as a screen reader are not capable of correctly identifying and interacting with the interface components built with these technologies -the widgets. In this context, the WAI -Web Accessibility Initiative created the ARIA -Accessible Rich Internet Applications specification which describes the use of properties that add semantics to elements that compose a widget, allowing Assistive Technology to priorly identify the behavior of a widget and inform the user about changes that might be made to the DOM structure of the webpage. This thesis' goal was to elaborate automatic evaluation strategies for accessibility requirements of the ARIA specification. Three evaluation strategies were elaborated following the research-action methodology with the conduction of three cycles of the activities of planning, acting, describing and evaluating. The strategies were implemented based in Acceptance Tests and verifications on specific details of the technology that compose web applications, considering specifically blind users interaction patterns through the use of screen readers. Each strategy was separately validated and the results show tendencies that the strategies were capable of correctly evaluating the behavior of web applications, considering their conformance with ARIA recommendations for blind users. The development and validation of the evaluation strategies also presented contributions by: including user interaction models in the automatic evaluation approaches and presenting a survey on web applications and JavaScript toolkits conformance rates with the ARIA specification. Thus contributing to the Web Engineering process of ARIA.

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