Automated GUI refactoring and test script repair (position paper)

2011 International Workshop on End-to-End Test Script Engineering, ETSE 2011 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 38-41

  Daniel, Brett ^a   Luo, Qingzhou ^a   Mirzaaghaei, Mehdi ^b   Dig, Danny ^a   Marinov, Darko ^a   Pezzè, Mauro ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Automated GUI testing; Graphical user interfaces; GUI maintenance; GUI refactoring

Indexed keywords

BLACK BOX APPROACH; END USERS; ERROR PRONES; GUI TESTING; POSITION PAPERS; REFACTORINGS; RESEARCH AGENDA; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; TEST CASE; TEST REPAIR; TEST SCRIPTS; USER EXPERIENCE;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; REPAIR; SOFTWARE TESTING; TESTING;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES;

EID: 80052154609     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2002931.2002937     Document Type: Conference Paper

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