Automatic Test Generation From GUI Applications For Testing Web Services

Kevin M. Conroy, M. Grechanik, M. Hellige, E. Liongosari, Qing Xie
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Graphical User Interface (GUI) Applications (GAPs) are ubiquitous and provide various services. Since many GAPs are not designed to exchange information (i.e., intemperate), companies replace legacy GAPs with web services, that are designed to intemperate over the Internet. However, it is laborious and inefficient to create unit test cases to test the web services. We propose a novel approach for generating tests for web services from legacy GAPs. This approach combines accessibility technologies for accessing and controlling GAPs in a uniform way with a visualization mechanism that enables nonprogrammers to generate unit test cases for web services by performing drag-and-drop operations on GUI elements of legacy GAPs. We built a tool based on our approach, and we used this tool to generate unit test cases from different GAPs. We believe that our approach is unique, and our evaluation suggests that our approach is effective and it can be used to generate test cases from nontrivial GAPs.
从GUI应用程序自动生成测试,用于测试Web服务
图形用户界面(GUI)应用程序(gap)无处不在,并提供各种服务。由于许多gap不是为交换信息而设计的(即,无节制的),因此公司用web服务取代了遗留的gap,而web服务被设计为在Internet上无节制的。然而,创建单元测试用例来测试web服务既费力又低效。我们提出了一种从遗留gap生成web服务测试的新方法。这种方法结合了以统一的方式访问和控制gap的可访问性技术,以及一种可视化机制,该机制允许非程序员通过对遗留gap的GUI元素执行拖放操作来为web服务生成单元测试用例。我们基于我们的方法构建了一个工具,并且我们使用这个工具从不同的gap生成单元测试用例。我们相信我们的方法是独一无二的,我们的评估表明我们的方法是有效的,它可以用来从重要的gap中生成测试用例。
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