Human-Computer Interaction
Automated Test Case Generation from Dynamic Models
ECOOP '00 Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
A Method to Automate User Interface Testing Using Variable Finite State Machines
FTCS '97 Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS '97)
Sizing and Estimating the Coding and Unit Testing Effort for GUI Systems
METRICS '96 Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Software Metrics: From Measurement to Empirical Results
Statistical schema matching across web query interfaces
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Use case-based testing of product lines
Proceedings of the 9th European software engineering conference held jointly with 11th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
An interactive clustering-based approach to integrating source query interfaces on the deep Web
SIGMOD '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Automation of GUI testing using a model-driven approach
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Automation of software test
Learning to extract form labels
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Inferring Types of References to GUI Objects in Test Scripts
ICST '09 Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation
Generating Event Sequence-Based Test Cases Using GUI Runtime State Feedback
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Model-driven reverse engineering of legacy graphical user interfaces
Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering
Text to software: developing tools to close the gaps in software engineering
Proceedings of the FSE/SDP workshop on Future of software engineering research
AutoBlackTest: a tool for automatic black-box testing
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
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Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) are typically designed to simplify data entering, data processing and visualization of results. However, GUIs can also be exploited for other purposes. For instance, automatic tools can analyze GUIs to retrieve information about the data that can be processed by an application. This information can serve many purposes such as ease application integration, augment test case generation, and support reverse engineering techniques. In the last years, the scientific community provided an increasing attention to the automatic extraction of information from interfaces. For instance, in the domain of Web applications, learning techniques have been used to extract information from Web forms. The knowledge about the data that can be processed by an application is not only relevant for the Web, but it is also extremely useful to support the same techniques when applied to desktop applications. In this paper we present a technique for the automatic extraction of descriptive information about the data that can be handled by widgets in GUI-based desktop applications. The technique is grounded on mature standards and best practices about the design of GUIs, and exploits the presence of textual descriptions in the GUIs to automatically obtain descriptive data for data widgets. The early empirical results with three desktop applications show that the presented algorithm can extract data with high precision and recall, and can be used to improve generation of GUI test cases.