A method for Automated User Interface Testing of Windows-based Applications

Abstract

This paper proposes a method for automated user interface testing of Windows-based applications to increase the accuracy in identifying the target widgets or executing several interactions. The key idea of this method is to generate new test scenarios from widgets and test specification where widgets are extracted during the execution of the application and test specification is generated by combining the interactions of widgets. Furthermore, the paper contributes some techniques to detect hidden widgets which considering as one of the most challenging problems in user interface testing. Currently, a supporting tool has been implemented and tested with several industrial projects. The details of the experimental results will be presented and discussed.