Classifying and Qualifying GUI Defects

2015 IEEE 8th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) Pub Date : 2015-04-13 DOI:10.1109/ICST.2015.7102582

Valéria Lelli, Arnaud Blouin, B. Baudry

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Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are integral parts of software systems that require interactions from their users. Software testers have paid special attention to GUI testing in the last decade, and have devised techniques that are effective in finding several kinds of GUI errors. However, the introduction of new types of interactions in GUIs (e.g., direct manipulation) presents new kinds of errors that are not targeted by current testing techniques. We believe that to advance GUI testing, the community needs a comprehensive and high level GUI fault model, which incorporates all types of interactions. The work detailed in this paper establishes 4 contributions: 1) A GUI fault model designed to identify and classify GUI faults. 2) An empirical analysis for assessing the relevance of the proposed fault model against failures found in real GUIs. 3) An empirical assessment of two GUI testing tools (i.e. GUITAR and Jubula) against those failures. 4) GUI mutants we've developed according to our fault model. These mutants are freely available and can be reused by developers for benchmarking their GUI testing tools.

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对GUI缺陷进行分类和鉴定

图形用户界面(gui)是软件系统的组成部分，需要与用户进行交互。在过去的十年中，软件测试人员对GUI测试给予了特别的关注，并且设计出了能够有效发现几种GUI错误的技术。然而，在gui中引入新的交互类型(例如，直接操作)会产生新的错误类型，而这些错误不是当前测试技术所针对的。我们相信，为了推进GUI测试，社区需要一个综合的、高层次的GUI故障模型，它包含所有类型的交互。本文详细的工作建立了4个贡献:1)GUI故障模型，用于识别和分类GUI故障。2)对所提出的故障模型与实际gui中发现的故障的相关性进行实证分析。3)针对这些失败对两个GUI测试工具(例如GUITAR和Jubula)进行经验评估。4)根据我们的故障模型开发的GUI变体。这些变体是免费提供的，开发人员可以重用它们来对其GUI测试工具进行基准测试。

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