Plan Generation for GUI Testing

Graphical user interfac,:s ((. ItL,,) have become nearly ul)itluitous its a reel. ms of int. eractillg wilh, ~, ~l’! wart. sysl ellS. ill’is are typically highly comI)lt’x l)i(’ct: s of software, and testing their correctiness poses a large challenge. In this paper, we present a new approach to automatic testing of (.;U Is that builds on AI ph-, mning techniques The mot/vating idtut ix that (; I i I I esl. tlcsigulers will ofIt: n find il c, t~it, r to specify typiral goals that uselx of Iheir software might have than to spt: cil’y sequences of GT’I actions that. users might perlbrm I. o achieve timse goals. Thus we cast (I1~1 ttrslrast: generation a. s an insl. aug: e or plan generatiou: given a specification of initial And goal states for a (J III, a plannc. ris ulsedI, o gt. iiei’al, (~ st: title, /ices of (jl. il actionsttiat leadfromthe initial sl. aic I. O/, he gual~tat, c. Wct. le, ~cril>t, oHr(. IUi I, esting SySleiii, I)AT]IS {lllmining.,_%s>isLcd Testerfor gi’ilplii,:al ilSei" interface. l~vslenls), ~uldwereport, oil i. ’~pet’iillOrtls ilSilig I.)ATIISIt) generat. clest ca, ~esfor Mirrosoft’s WordPAd.

Authors

• Atif M. Memon
• Martha E. Pollack
• Mary Lou Soffa

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