Paper Info
Title
Aiding exploratory testing with pruned GUI models.
Abstract
Exploratory testing is a kind of software testing approach that emphasizes tester's experience to maximize the chances to find bugs within a specific time period. It is naturally a GUI-oriented testing activity for GUI-based systems. We propose aiding exploratory testing by providing a GUI model of the region impacted by the most recent internal code changes. We create such a delimited GUI model by pruning an original GUI model, quickly built by static analysis. This pruned GUI model is result of a reachability analysis between GUI elements and internal source code changes. Only related GUI elements are preserved. To illustrate the idea, we consider five GUI applications found in public repositories with varying changes among them. We present experimental data concerning two executions of two exploratory testing sessions: one without using our proposal and another with our proposal. For both testers, our proposal showed coverage gain in experimental data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.ipl.2018.01.008
Information Processing Letters
Keywords
Field
DocType
Software engineering,GUI testing,Static analysis,Exploratory testing,Change request
Combinatorics,Humanities,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
133
0020-0190
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
8
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jacinto Reis120.36
Alexandre Cabral Mota219918.27