Title :
Repairing Selenium Test Cases: An Industrial Case Study about Web Page Element Localization
Author :
Leotta, Maurizio ; Clerissi, Diego ; Ricca, Filippo ; Spadaro, Cristiano
Author_Institution :
Dipt. di Inf., Bioingegneria, Robot. e Ing. dei Sist. (DIBRIS), Univ. di Genova, Genoa, Italy
Abstract :
This poster presents an industrial case study about test automation and test suite maintenance in the context of Web applications. The Web application under test is a Learning Content Management System (eXact learning LCMS). We analysed the costs associated with the realignment of four equivalent Selenium WebDriver test suites, implemented using the page object pattern and different methods to locate web page elements, to a subsequent release of eXact learning LCMS. In our study, the two ID-based test suites required significantly less maintenance effort than the XPath-based ones.
Keywords :
Internet; content management; costing; program testing; software maintenance; ID-based test suites; Selenium WebDriver test suites; Web applications; Web page element location; cost analysis; eXact learning LCMS; industrial case study; learning content management system; page object pattern; test automation; test suite maintenance; Automation; Computer languages; Context; Maintenance engineering; Navigation; Testing; Web pages; Selenium WebDriver; Test Automation; Test Suite Maintainability; Web Application Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2013 IEEE Sixth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Luembourg
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5961-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICST.2013.73