Advances in Software Engineering

Research Article

A Proposal for Automatic Testing of GUIs Based on Annotated Use Cases

Algorithm 1

Test case autogeneration algorithm
initial_test_set      initial test case set
auto_gen_test_set       auto-generated test case set (empty)
annotated_elements       user-provided annotations
for all TestCase initial_test_set do
 new_test_cases add_test_case new_test_cases, tc
 for all TestItem  do
  if    .widget annotated_elements then
   annotations annotations_for_widget .widget
   new_test_cases create_new_test_cases new_test_cases, annotations.values
   new_test_cases add_validation_rules new_test_cases, annotations.rules
  end if
 end for
 auto_gen_test_set auto_gen_test_set new_test_cases
end for
return auto_gen_test_set