Paper Info
Title
Comparing the maintainability of selenium WebDriver test suites employing different locators: a case study
Abstract
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2489280.2489284
Proceedings of the 2013 International Workshop on Joining AcadeMiA and Industry Contributions to testing Automation
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
web test suite,selenium webdriver test suite,best solution,web application lead,test suite maintenance,test automation,different ui locators,test suite,different locators,case study,industrial case study,test case,maintainability,web application testing
Conference
9
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.70
7
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maurizio Leotta126232.08
Diego Clerissi2708.58
Filippo Ricca31788124.62
Cristiano Spadaro4332.57