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Building a Model-Based GUI Test Automation System for Mobile Applications

Department of Software Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210016, P. R. China

E-mail Address: taochuanqi@njust.edu.cn

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Jerry Gao

Department of Computer Engineering, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 95192, USA

Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030024, P. R. China

E-mail Address: jerry.gao@sjsu.edu

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218194016710042Cited by:3 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

With the rapid advance of mobile computing technology and wireless networking, there is a significant increase of mobile applications (apps). This brings new business requirements and demands in mobile software testing, and causes new issues and challenges in mobile test automation. Existing mobile application testing approaches mostly concentrate on GUI-based testing, load and performance testing without considering large-scale concurrent mobile app test automation, and model-based test coverage analysis. In this paper, a mobile hierarchical GUI model is proposed to present mobile operation scenario flows and gesture features in a hierarchical manner, in order to facilitate test dependency analysis in test automation. Mobile app test coverage analysis is performed based on GUI ripping models. The paper also presents a developed system that provides a test automation solution using GUI models. Finally, the paper reports a case study to indicate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed approach.

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