Testing and debugging account for a major part of software development cost and effort, yet the current practice of software testing is often insufficiently structured and disciplined. There have been various attempts in the past decades to bring more rigour and structure into this field, resulting in several industrial-strength processes, techniques and tools for different levels of testing.
Automated testing of applications at the GUI level
Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) represent the main connection point between a software's components and its end users and can be found in almost all modern applications. This makes them attractive for testers, since testing at the GUI level means testing from the user's perspective and is thus the ultimate way of verifying a program's correct behaviour. To be effective, GUI testing should be automated.
For a couple of years now a scriptless approach to automated GUI testing called TESTAR (Test Automation at the user inteRface level) is researched.
In her tutorial prof. Tanja Vos from the Open University, The Netherlands and the Technical University of Valencia, Spain will explain GUI testing and its challenges. She will introduce TESTAR and show the internals of how the tool works, the different options that exist for action selection, online and offline oracles. Moreover, attendants will do a hands-on do it yourself session.
Practical Information
For more information, program and application visit the website van de Summer School on Testing.
