Firewall Regression Testing of GUI Sequences and their Interactions

  • Authors:
  • Lee White;Husain Almezen;Shivakumar Sastry

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICSM '03 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Testing Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) isdifficult, involving many states, inputs andevents. Another serious problem is that in testingGUIs, not all effects created by the testing areobservable. We have previously reported ascalable method for testing GUIs based onComplete Interactions Sequences (CIS). A CIS isa sequence of GUI objects and selections thatcollaborate to produce a response for the usercalled the responsibility. In this paper we usethe CIS foundation to develop a new firewallmethod for GUI regression testing. This newmethod is an inherently selective regressionapproach in which only GUI objects in thefirewall need be regression tested. An empiricalstudy of a commercial GUI system is used toillustrate this new method.