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“An Initial Characterization of Industrial Graphical User Interface Systems” by Penelope Brooks, Brian Robinson. And Atif M. Memon, in ICST 2009: Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, (Washington, DC, USA), 2009.
To date we have developed and applied numerous model-based GUI testing techniques; however, we are unable to provide definitive improvement schemes to real-world GUI test planners, as our data was derived from open source applications, small compared to industrial systems. This paper presents a study of three industrial GUI-based software systems developed at ABB, including data on classified defects detected during late-phase testing and customer usage, test suites, and source code change metrics. The results show that (1) 50% of the defects found through the GUI are categorized as data access and handling, control flow and sequencing, correctness, and processing defects, (2) system crashes exposed defects 12-19% of the time, and (3) GUI and non-GUI components are constructed differently, in terms of source code metrics.
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BibTeX entry:
@inproceedings{BrooksRobinsonMemonICST2009,
author = {Penelope Brooks and Brian Robinson and Atif M. Memon},
title = {An Initial Characterization of Industrial Graphical User
Interface Systems},
booktitle = {ICST 2009: Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International
Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Washington, DC, USA},
year = {2009}
}
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