Model-Based Testing of Community-Driven Open-Source GUI Applications

Although the world-wide-web (WWW) has significantly enhanced open-source software (OSS) development, it has also created new challenges for quality assurance (QA), especially for OSS with a graphical-user interface (GUI) front-end. Distributed communities of developers, connected by the WWW, work concurrently on loosely-coupled parts of the OSS and the corresponding GUI code. Due to the unprecedented code churn rates enabled by the WWW, developers may not have time to determine whether their recent modifications have caused integration problems with the overall OSS; these problems can often be detected via GUI integration testing. However, the resource-intensive nature of GUI testing prevents the application of existing automated QA techniques used during conventional OSS evolution. In this paper we develop new process support for three nested techniques that leverage developer communities interconnected by the WWW to automate model-based testing of evolving GUI-based OSS. The “in...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ICSM
• Authors: Qing Xie, Atif M. Memon
• Keywords: Corresponding Gui, GUI Integration Testing, GUI-based OSS, ICSM 2006, Software Engineering