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The iMPAcT tool combines the benefits of existing user recurring behaviour (User Interface Patterns) on mobile applications to facilitate the test automation of Android mobile applications. It uses an automatic exploration process combined with reverse engineering to identify the existing user interface patterns on a mobile application and then tests those patterns with generic test strategies (designated Test Patterns). The Test Patterns are defined in a catalogue that can be reused for testing other applications. However the results obtained by the iMPAcT tool depend on the exploration mode and on the order in which the test strategies are applied. This paper describes an experiment conducted to evaluate the impact of using different exploration modes and of changing the order by which UI patterns are searched and subsequently tested on the failures found and on the number of events fired. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.

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Software systems with a graphical user interface (GUI) front end are typically designed using user interface (UI) Patterns, which describe generic solutions (with multiple possible implementations) for recurrent GUI design problems. However, existing testing techniques do not take advantage of this fact to test GUIs more efficiently. In this paper, we present a new pattern-based GUI testing (PBGT) approach that formalizes the notion of UI Test Patterns, which are generic test strategies to test UI patterns over their different implementations. The PBGT approach is evaluated via 2 case studies. The first study involves 2 fielded Web application subjects; findings show that PBGT is both practical and useful, as testing teams were able to find real bugs in a reasonable time interval. The second study allows deeper analysis by studying software subjects seeded with artificial faults; the findings show that PBGT is more effective than a manual model-based test case generation approach.

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This paper presents an educational game (iLearnTest) to teach software testing. The body of knowledge covered by the game corresponds to the ISTQB certification foundation level. The game was validated in an experiment with college students where it was intended to assess whether the results of an examination by the students who used the game in learning were better than those obtained by students who have not used it. The results show that the iLearnTest may be a good complement to traditional teaching.

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Pattern Based GUI Testing (PBGT) is a new methodology that aims at systematizing and automating the GUI testing process. It is supported by a Tool (PBGT Tool) which provides an integrated modeling and testing environment that supports the crafting of test models based on UI Test Patterns, using a GUI modeling DSL called PARADIGM. The tool is freely available as an Eclipse plugin, developed on top of the Eclipse Modeling Framework. This paper presents PBGT Tool, which has been successfully used in several projects, and more recently at industry level.

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In the context of SaaS (Software as a Service) where software has to be up and running 7 days a week and 24 h a day, keeping the requirements specification up to date can be difficult. Managing requirements in this context have additional challenges that need to be taken into account, for instance, re-prioritize requirements continuously and identify/update new dependencies among them. We claim that extracting and analyzing the usage of the SaaS can help to maintain requirements updated and contribute to improve the overall quality of the services provided. This paper presents REQAnalytics, a recommendation system that collects the information about the usage of a SaaS, analyses it and generates recommendations more readable than reports generated by web analytic tools. The overall approach has been applied on several case studies with promising results. © Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018.