Inferring types of references to GUI objects in test scripts

Proceedings - 2nd International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation, ICST 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-10

  Fu, Chen ^a   Grechanik, Mark ^a   Xie, Qing ^a  

^a ACCENTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK-BOX TESTING; OBJECT REFERENCE; SOURCE CODES; TEST AUTOMATION; TEST ENGINEERS; TEST SCRIPTS; TESTING PROCESS; TYPE INFERENCES; TYPE INFORMATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; SOFTWARE TESTING; VERIFICATION;

TESTING;

EID: 67650154734     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICST.2009.12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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