GUI Testing FrAmewoRk (GUITAR)
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Software testing is a critical component of the software development process and is required to ensure the safety, robustness and usability of software. Unfortunately, it is also complex, labor intensive and expensive, accounting for almost 67% of the total cost of software development. Hence, there has been significant research aimed at automating the testing process. Although automation has achieved some success, many problems remain. In particular, it is not yet clear how to automate the testing of graphical user interfaces (GUIs), which constitute an increasingly large portion of software systems (almost 50% of the total software code). Recognizing the importance of GUI testing, we have developed GUITAR, a GUI Testing Framework that presents a unified solution to the GUI testing problem. In the last four years, we have had considerable success in developing new technologies for GUI testing. Most of the results of our research have been published. I encourage you to visit our Publications Page. Our emphasis has been on developing new event-based tools and techniques for various phases of GUI testing. Developing this web-page has two purposes. First, we would like to make GUITAR freely available to practitioners so that they can employ its tools/techniques to test their GUIs. The goal is to use their feedback to evolve these techniques. Second, we strongly encourage GUI testing researchers to use GUITAR as a forum to collaborate, share results and ideas so that we all can get a better understanding of the problems of GUI testing and develop better solutions. If you perform GUI testing and/or are interested in GUI testing research and would like to be a part of the GUITAR group, please send an e-mail. This project is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
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