BlackHorse: Creating smart test cases from brittle recorded tests

Author

Carino, Santo ; Andrews, James H. ; Goulding, Sheldon ; Arunthavarajah, Pradeepan ; Florio, Tony ; Hertyk, Jakub

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

fYear

2012

fDate

2-3 June 2012

Firstpage

89

Lastpage

95

Abstract

Testing software with a GUI is difficult. Manual testing is costly and error-prone, but recorded test cases frequently “break” due to changes in the GUI. Test cases intended to test business logic must therefore be converted to a less “brittle” form to lengthen their useful lifespan. In this paper, we describe BlackHorse, an approach to doing this that converts a recorded test case to Java code that bypasses the GUI. The approach was implemented within the testing environment of Research In Motion. We describe the design of the toolset and discuss lessons learned during the course of the project.

Keywords

Java; graphical user interfaces; program testing; BlackHorse; GUI; Java code; brittle recorded tests; business logic; manual testing; smart test cases; software testing; testing environment; Business; Generators; Graphical user interfaces; Java; Manuals; Software; Testing; program generation; software testing; test recording and playback;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Automation of Software Test (AST), 2012 7th International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Zurich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1821-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWAST.2012.6228996

Filename

6228996