STeP-IN Theme conference on Test Automation

Selvi Ponniahpillai
Software Quality Manager - Sun Microsystems

Rakesh Menon
Member Technical Staff - Sun Microsystems

Mr. Rakesh Menon has more than 8 years software industry experience. Mainly in the area of Java UI in implementation of UI Toolkits, Applications and Quality Assurance. Working as Software Quality Engineer for Java SE [Standard Edition] for Sun Microsystems since 2003. Hands on exposure on quality assurance of various client components such as AWT, Swing, Java2D, I18N, Plugin, Java Web Start and Installer.

ABSTRACT: This paper presents a more efficient and manageable technique to write automated User Interface test-suites. Important challenge that a software quality professional faces today is the automation of testsuites based on the traditional approach for GUI based application testing. Traditionally the testsuites are created based on the User Interface of an application and hence they are tied down to the UI which becomes unusable as the application UI changes. The new approach breaks down this dependency to some extent by de-coupling tests from User Interface and ties the tests directly to Use-Case scenarios. Thus it also hides the complexity involved in writing automated tests and hence tests are immune to UI changes and are operating systems, browser, locale independent.

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