Software test automation using DEVSimPy environment

ABSTRACT

The paper deals with test automation of GUI (General User Interface) software using simulations. The development of GUI software requires a great amount of time and cost concerning the testing aspects. In order to facilitate and speed up the testing of such GUI software an approach based on discrete-event modeling and simulation is proposed. Traditionally, the GUI software test automation approaches require the development of testing procedures which are fastidious to carry on. The idea is to perform test automation of GUI software by integrating of existing GUI software testing environments within a DEVS (Discrete EVent system Specification) formalism framework called DEVSimPy. The proposed approach is validated on a real application dealing with medical software which have to respect very strict formats defined by French governmental institutions.

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Index Terms

• General and reference

  • Cross-computing tools and techniques

    • Metrics

• Information systems

  • Information systems applications