Expressing Graphical User's Input for Test Specifications

摘要

As more and more applications now involve graphical user's interactions, an essential issue we are facing is how to automate effective testing on GUI-based applications. Many factors have contributed to the new dimensions of the complexity in the automated testing in this regard, one of them being how to properly characterize the graphical user's input from the prospective of test users. Here we propose a possible way of characterizing graphical user's input. This treatment is used in our prototype implementation of an automated tool to support the testing of the presentation logic in GUI-based applications. It plays an important role in enhancing the scalability of this testing environment with respect to the various types of graphical user's input. We introduce the respect enhancement and discuss the important design issues in it.