研究基于gui测试生成的测试用例本科论文.doc

International Journal of Software Engineering Applications (IJSEA), Vol.3, No.1, January 2012 STUDY PAPER ON TEST CASE GENERATION FOR GUI BASED TESTING Isabella1and Emi Retna2 1 PG Research Scholar, Software Engineering Group, School of Computer Science and Technology, Karunya University, Coimbatore, India aisabella20@ 2 Head – Computer Technology Centre, Karunya University, Coimbatore, India emiretna@ ABSTRACT With the advent of WWW and outburst in technology and software development, testing the software became a major concern. Due to the importance of the testing phase in a software development lifecycle, testing has been divided into graphical user interface (GUI) based testing, logical testing, integration testing, etc.GUI Testing has become very important as it provides more sophisticated way to interact with the software. The complexity of testing GUI increased over time. The testing needs to be performed in a way that it provides effectiveness, efficiency, increased fault detection rate and good path coverage. To cover all use cases and to provide testing for all possible (success/failure) scenarios the length of the test sequence is considered important. Intent of this paper is to study some techniques used for test case generation and process for various GUI based software applications. KEYWORDS GUI Testing, Model-Based Testing, Test Case, Automated Testing, Event Testing. 1. INTRODUCTION Graphical User Interface (GUI) is a program interface that takes advantage of the computers graphics capabilities to make the program easier to use. Graphical User Interface (GUI) provides user an immense way to interact with the software [1]. The most eminent and essential parts of the software that is being used today are Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) [8], [9]. Even though GUIs provides user an easy way to use the software, they make the development process of the software tangled [2]. Graphical user interface (GUI) testing is the process of