Phillip Laplante

Fevzi Belli

Jerry Gao

Greg Kapfhammer

Keith Miller

W. Eric Wong

Dianxiang Xu

Software Test Automation

the object industri studi shed light current situat improv need softwar test autom end 55 industri specialist from 31 organiz unit were interview parallel survey qualit studi conduct 12 select softwar develop organ the result indic softwar test process usual follow systemat method larg degre have onli littl immedi critic requir resourc base result test process have approxim three fourth resourc need have access limit usual suffici group test tool test autom situat straightforward base our studi applic test autom still limit it adapt test contain practic difficulti usabl studi analyz discuss limit difficulti

Jussi Kasurinen

Ossi Taipale

Kari Smolander

Software Test Automation in Practice: Empirical Observations

propos novel strategi optim test suit requir test both hardwar softwar product line here strategi base two process qualiti sign process qualiti verif process respect unlike earlier work propos strategi base integr black box white box techniqu order deriv optimum test suit dure qualiti sign process case generat optim test suit signific improv qualiti verif process consid both process novelti propos strategi fact optim reduct test suit perform select onli mutant kill test case from cumul tway test case propos strategi can potenti enhanc qualiti product minim cost term overal resourc usag time execut case studi paper describ stepbystep applic strategi test 4bit magnitud compar integrat circuit product line compar our result demonstr propos strategi outperform tradit block partit strategi mutant score 100 90 respect same number test case

Mohammed I. Younis

Kamal Z. Zamli

A Strategy for Automatic Quality Signing and Verification Processes for Hardware and Software Testing

modif softwar can affect some function had been work until point order detect problem ideal solut would test whole system onc again may insuffici time resourc approach altern solut order test case most benefici test execut first way onli subset test case can execut littl lost effect such techniqu known regress test case priorit paper propos use reactiv grasp metaheurist priorit test case also compar metaheurist other searchbas algorithm previous describ literatur five program were use experi the experiment result demonstr good coverag perform some time overhead propos techniqu also demonstr high stabil result generat propos approach

Camila Loiola Brito Maia

Rafael Augusto Ferreira do Carmo

Fabrício Gomes de Freitas

Gustavo Augusto Lima de Campos

Jerffeson Teixeira de Souza

Automated Test Case Prioritization with Reactive GRASP

test redund detect reduc test mainten cost also ensur integr test suit one most wide use approach purpos base coverag inform recent work have shown although inform can use detect redund test may suffer from larg number falseposit error test case be identifi redund while realli paper propos semiautom methodolog deriv reduc test suit from given test suit while keep fault detect effect unchang evalu methodolog appli mutat analysi techniqu measur fault detect effect reduc test suit real java project the result confirm propos manual interact inspect process lead reduc test suit same fault detect abil origin test suit

Negar Koochakzadeh

Vahid Garousi

A Tester-Assisted Methodology for Test Redundancy Detection

this paper describ annabot one first tool verifi correct use annotationbas metadata java program languag these annotat standard java 5 mechan use attach metadata type method field without use extern configur file binari represent annotat becom part compil class file inspect anoth compon librari runtim java annotat were introduc java languag 2004 have becom wide use recent year due introduct java enterpris edition 5 hibern objectrel map api spring framework elsewher despit mainstream develop tool have yet produc widelyus verif tool confirm correct configur placement annot extern particular runtim compon while most exampl paper use java persist api annabot capabl verifi anyannotationbas api which claim descript annot usag avail these claim can written java use propos domainspecif languag which has been design parser code generat have been written

Ian Darwin

AnnaBot: A Static Verifier for Java Annotation Usage

this paper present new approach automat generat gui test case valid point from set annot use case this techniqu help reduc effort requir gui model test coverag analysi dure softwar test process the test case generat process describ paper initi guid use case describ gui behavior record set interact gui element widget be click data input etc these use case model set initi test case annot tester indic interest variat widget valu rang valid invalid valu valid rule expect result once use case annot approach use new defin valu valid rule automat generat new test case valid point easili expand test coverag also process allow narrow gui model test precis identifi set gui element interact valu tester interest

Pedro Luis Mateo Navarro

Diego Sevilla Ruiz

Gregorio Martínez Pérez

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

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Software Test Automation in Practice: Empirical Observations

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Automated Test Case Prioritization with Reactive GRASP

A Tester-Assisted Methodology for Test Redundancy Detection

AnnaBot: A Static Verifier for Java Annotation Usage

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