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Eventflowslicer: A Goal-Based Test Case Generation Strategy For Graphical User Interfaces, Jonathan Saddler

Department of Computer Science and Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Automated test generation techniques for graphical user interfaces include model-based approaches that generate tests from a graph or state machine model of the interface, capture-replay methods that require the user to specify and demonstrate each test case individually, and modeling-language approaches that provide templates for abstract test cases. There has been little work, however, in automated goal-based testing, where the goal is a realistic user task, a function, or an abstract behavior. Recent work in human performance regression testing (HPRT) has shown that there is a need for generating multiple test cases that execute the same user task in different …