Research And Application Of Automated Testing Framework Based On GUI Software

The widespread recognition of the usefulness of graphical user interface (GUI) has established their importance as critical components of today's software.GUI manual testing makes testers dull and has high-cost. With the wide software size and improve of software complexity, the workload of software testing has more and more heavy. It's not satisfied with GUI software manual testing lonely. So it is imperative to automated testing of GUI software.There exists many commercial tools for testing GUI software, which are Capture-Playback mechanism-based.However, they haven't provided enough support for automated testing of GUI software.Therefore it is necessary and meaningful to research on automated testing.This dissertation systematically analyzes the research status of graphical user interfaces. According to the presented theoy and technique of testing automation, It proposes a complete and efficient GUI Software Testing Automation Framework (GSTAF4SEI) .This framework not only supports C/S (client/server) software based on GUI testing , but also supports web application.This dissertation researches three key technologies based on that framework. They are test cases generation, the result of automated comparison, test script design and execution. Using automated testing tool based on GUI software called RFT, The framework applies in the testing of web application called Coal Quality Management Information System (CQMIS).The application value of the solution to automated testing is verified consequently.