Early development of graphical user interface (GUI) in agile methodologies
Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering
A Bi-objective Model Inspired Greedy Algorithm for Test Suite Minimization
FGIT '09 Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Future Generation Information Technology
An enhanced test case selection approach for model-based testing: an industrial case study
Proceedings of the eighteenth ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
A test suite reduction approach based on pairwise interaction of requirements
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
An approach to automatic input sequence generation for GUI testing using ant colony optimization
Proceedings of the 13th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation
Automated GUI performance testing
Software Quality Control
A metaheuristic approach to test sequence generation for applications with a GUI
SSBSE'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Search based software engineering
Test case filtering and prioritization based on coverage of combinations of program elements
WODA '09 Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Dynamic Analysis
Information and Software Technology
Accounting for defect characteristics in evaluations of testing techniques
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Regression testing minimization, selection and prioritization: a survey
Software Testing, Verification & Reliability
Bi-criteria test suite reduction by cluster analysis of execution profiles
CEE-SET'09 Proceedings of the 4th IFIP TC 2 Central and East European conference on Advances in Software Engineering Techniques
Achieving scalable model-based testing through test case diversity
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Multi-objective test case prioritization for GUI applications
Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Research and application of regression test cases aided design method based on association-mode
ICIC'13 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Intelligent Computing Theories
Static test case prioritization using topic models
Empirical Software Engineering
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Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are used as front-ends to most of today's software applications. The event-driven nature of GUIs presents new challenges for testing. One important challenge is test suite reduction. Conventional reduction techniques/tools based on static analysis are not easily applicable due to the increased use of multi-language GUI implementations, callbacks for event handlers, virtual function calls, reflection, and multi-threading. Moreover, many existing techniques ignore code in libraries, and fail to consider the context in which event handlers execute. Consequently, they yield GUI test suites with seriously impaired fault-detection ability. This paper presents a reduction technique based on the call-stack coverage criterion. Call stacks may be collected for any executing program with very little overhead. Empirical studies in this paper compare reduction based on call-stack coverage to reduction based on line, method, and event coverage, including variations that control for size and optional consideration of library methods. These studies show that call-stack-based reduction provides an excellent tradeoff between reduction in test suite size and loss of fault detection effectiveness. Additionally, an analysis of the relationship between coverage elements and fault-revealing test cases is presented.