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Presented by Bob Mazzi 9/30/08

SOA for Hierarchical GUI Test Case Generation Using Automated Planning. by Atif M. Memon, Martha E. Pollack, and Mary Lou Soffa. Presented by Bob Mazzi 9/30/08. GUIs – Older than you think. First GUIs – Xerox PARC 1981 Windows GUIs 1985 – Present 85-94 Installed within DOS

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Presented by Bob Mazzi 9/30/08

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  1. SOA for Hierarchical GUI Test Case Generation Using Automated Planning.by Atif M. Memon, Martha E. Pollack, and Mary Lou Soffa. Presented by Bob Mazzi 9/30/08

  2. GUIs – Older than you think • First GUIs – Xerox PARC 1981 • Windows GUIs 1985 – Present • 85-94 Installed within DOS • 95 – Present True Standalone OS • Apple GUIs 1984 – Present • IBM OS/2 1987 – 2006 ( RIP )

  3. GUI = Graphic User Interfaces M.M Kaddah “ Interactive Scenarios for the development of a Unser Interface Prototype” 93 GUI Design B.A. Meyers “Why are Human-Computer Interfaces Difficult to design and Implement?” 7/93 D. Rosenberg “User Interface Prototyping in the 90’s” 93 R.M. Mulligan, M.W. Altom, D.K. Simkin “User Interface Design…” 91 J. Nielson “Iterative User Interface Design” 11/93 A. Kaster “User Interface Design…” 91 General Test Processes See Slide 4 GUI Tools B.A. Meyers “User Interface Software Tools” 95 M.G. El-Said, G. Fischer, S.A Gamalei-Din, M Zaki “ADDI A Tool for Automating the design of visual Interfaces” 97 GUI Testing Planning of Testing See Slide 5 A. Walworth “Java GUI Testing” 98 A. Howe etal “Test Case Generation as an AI Planning Problem” 97 L. The “Stress Tests for GUI Programs” 9/92 L.R. Kepple “The Black Art of GUI Testing” 2/94 This Paper April 2000 M.L. Hammontree etal “ Integrated Data capture and Analysis Tools for research and testing a GUI” 5/92 L. White “Regression Testing of GUI Event Interactions” 11/96 D.J. Kasik, H.G. George “Toward Automatic Generation of Novice User test scripts” 4/96 Subsequent Work State of the Art

  4. T.S. Chow “Testing Software Design Modeled by Finite-State Machines” ” 3/78 S. Esmelioglu etal “Automated Test case Generation Planning and Reporting” 10/97 P.J. Bernhard “A Reduced Test Suite for Protocol Performance testing” 7/94 J.M. Clarke “Automated Test Generation from a Behavioral Model” 5/98 H. Cho etal “Redundancy Identification/Removal and Test Generation for Sequential circuits…” 7/93 R.K. Shehady etal“A method to Automate User Interface Testing …” 6/97 General Test Processes. to Slide 3 State of the Art / General Testing

  5. M. Peot, D. Smith “Conditional Nonlinear Planning” 6/92 D.S. Weld “An introduction to Least Commitment Planning” 94 D.S. Weld “Recent Advances in AI Planning” 99 K. Erol et al “HTN Planning: Complexity and Expressivity” 8/94 A.L. Blum, M.L. Furst “Fast Planning through Planning Graph Analysis” 97 J. Koehler etal “Extending Planning Graphs to the ADL Subset” 97 H. Kautz, B. Selman “ The Role of Domain Specific Knowledge in the planning as Satisfiability Framework” 98 Test Planning Processes. To Slide 3 State of the Art / Test Planning

  6. Overall Timeline • 1981 Early GUI Precursors ( Xerox / PARC ) • 1983 First Apple GUI ( Lisa ) • 1985 First Microsoft GUI ( Win 1.0 ) • 1987 First IBM GUI ( OS/2 ) • 1978-97 – General topic of “Testing” papers • 1991-93 – GUI Design papers • 1992-98 – GUI Testing papers • 1995-97 – GUI Tools papers • 1999 – This paper

  7. Related Work • Atif M. Memon • 6 Papers with M. Pollack and M.L. Soffa • 1 Paper with M.L. Soffa • 4 papers with Adithya Nagarajan • 3 papers with Ishan Banerjee • 3 Papers with Xun Yuan • 3 Papers with Jaymie Strecker • 3 papers with Qing Xie • 2 papers with Scott McMaster • Martha E. Pollack • 6 Common papers, no other related papers • Mary Lou Soffa • 7 Common papers, no other related papers • Adithya Nagarajan & Ishan Banerjee • 3/4 Common papers, no other related papers • Xun Yuan • 3 Common papers, no other related papers • Jaymie Strecker • 3 Common papers, no other related papers • Qing Xie • 3 Common papers, One other related paper? • Scott McMaster • 2 Common papers, no other related papers

  8. Subsequent Related Work by Atif Memon • Atif Memon's Publications • 2009 • “Using Reverse Engineering for Automated Usability Evaluation of GUI-Based Applications” by Atif M. Memon. • “Testing Graphical User Interfaces” by Jaymie Strecker and Atif M. Memon.2008 • “Using a Pilot Study to Derive a GUI Model for Automated Testing ” by Qing Xie and Atif M. Memon. • “Test Case Generator for GUITAR” by Daniel Hackner and Atif M. Memon. • “Relationships Between Test Suites, Faults, and Fault Detection in GUI Testing” by Jaymie Strecker and Atif M. Memon. • “Call-Stack Coverage for GUI Test-Suite Reduction ” by Scott McMaster and Atif M. Memon. • “Automatically Repairing Event Sequence-Based GUI Test Suites for Regression Testing”by Atif M. Memon. • “Alternating GUI Test Generation and Execution” by Xun Yuan and Atif M. Memon. • 2007 • “Fault Detection Probability Analysis for Coverage-Based Test Suite Reduction” by Scott McMaster and Atif M. Memon. • “Designing and comparing automated test oracles for GUI-based software applications” by Qing Xie and Atif M. Memon. • “Covering Array Sampling of Input Event Sequences for Automated GUI Testing” by Xun Yuan, Myra Cohen. And Atif M. Memon, • “Automated GUI Testing Guided by Usage Profiles” by Penelope Brooks and Atif M. Memon. • “An event-flow model of GUI-based applications for testing” by Atif M. Memon. • “Agile Quality Assurance Techniques for GUI-Based Applications” by Qing Xie and Atif M. Memon. • “Faults' Context Matters” by Jaymie Strecker and Atif M. Memon. • “Using GUI Run-Time State as Feedback to Generate Test Cases” by Xun Yuan and Atif M. Memon. • 2006 • “Model-Based Testing of Community-Driven Open-Source GUI Applications” by Qing Xie and Atif M. Memon. • “Employing user profiles to test a new version of a GUI component in its context of use” by Atif M. Memon. • “Studying the Characteristics of a `Good' GUI Test Suite” by Qing Xie and Atif M. Memon. • “Call Stack Coverage for GUI Test-Suite Reduction” by Scott McMaster and Atif M. Memon. • “Techniques and processes for improving the quality and performance of open-source software”by Adam Porter, Cemal Yilmaz. • 2005 • “Studying the Fault-Detection Effectiveness of GUI Test Cases for Rapidly Evolving Software” by Atif M. Memon and Qing Xie. • “Rapid "Crash Testing" for Continuously Evolving GUI-Based Software Applications” by Qing Xie and Atif M. Memon. • “Call Stack Coverage for Test Suite Reduction” by Scott McMaster and Atif M. Memon. • “Automating regression testing for evolving GUI software” by Atif Memon, Adithya Nagarajan, and Qing Xie.

  9. Subsequent Related Work by Atif Memon • 2004 • “Empirical Evaluation of the Fault-Detection Effectiveness of Smoke Regression Test Cases for GUI-Based Software” by Atif M. Memon and Qing Xie. • “Automated GUI Regression Testing Using AI Planning” by Atif M. Memon. • “A Distributed Continuous Quality Assurance Process to Manage Variability in Performance-intensive Software” by Arvind S. Krishna, Cemal Yilmaz. Atif M. Memon, Adam Porter, Douglas C. Schmidt, Aniruddha Gokhale, and Balachandran Natarajan, • “Using Tasks to Automate Regression Testing of GUIs” by Atif M. Memon. • 2003 • “Regression testing of GUIs” by Atif M. Memon and Mary Lou Soffa. • “Advances in GUI Testing” by Atif M. Memon. • “What Test Oracle Should I Use for Effective GUI Testing?” by Atif M. Memon, Ishan Banerjee, and Adithya Nagarajan. • “DART: A Framework for Regression Testing Nightly/daily Builds of GUI Applications” by Atif M. Memon, Ishan Banerjee, and Adithya Nagarajan. • “ Automatically Testing “Nightly/daily Builds” of GUI Applications” by Atif M. Memon, Ishan Banerjee, and Adithya Nagarajan. • 2002 • “GUI Testing: Pitfalls and Process” by Atif M. Memon. • 2001 • “Hierarchical GUI Test Case Generation Using Automated Planning” by Atif M. Memon, Martha E. Pollack, and Mary Lou Soffa. ( This paper ) • “Coverage criteria for GUI testing” by Atif M. Memon, Mary Lou Soffa, and Martha E. Pollack. • “A comprehensive framework for testing graphical user interfaces” by Atif M. Memon.Ph.D. dissertation, 2001. Advisors: Mary Lou Soffa and Martha Pollack; Committee members: Prof. Rajiv Gupta (University of Arizona), Prof. Adele E. Howe (Colorado State University), Prof. Lori Pollock (University of Delaware) . • 2000 • “Automated test oracles for GUIs” by Atif M. Memon, Martha E. Pollack, and Mary Lou Soffa. • “A Planning-Based Approach to GUI Testing” by Atif M. Memon, Martha E. Pollack, and Mary Lou Soffa. • “Plan Generation for GUI Testing” by Atif M. Memon, Martha E. Pollack, and Mary Lou Soffa. • 1999 • “Using a goal-driven approach to generate test cases for GUIs” by Atif M. Memon, Martha E. Pollack, and Mary Lou Soffa.

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