Augusto: exploiting popular functionalities for the generation of semantic GUI tests with Oracles

Abstract

Testing software applications by interacting with their graphical user interface (GUI) is an expensive and complex process. Current automatic test case generation techniques implement explorative approaches that, although producing useful test cases, have a limited capability of covering semantically relevant interactions, thus frequently missing important testing scenarios. These techniques typically interact with the available widgets following the structure of the GUI, without any guess about the functions that are executed.