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Finding Common Subsequences in Recorded Test Cases

Authors:
Martin Filipsky
Miroslav Bures
Ivan Jelinek

Keywords: functional testing, test automation, test recording, genetic algorithm

Abstract:
Current trends in the agile software development prefer to deliver finished stories with automated tests, which results in a fact that many Quality assurance engineers struggle with the lack of time. Rapidly changing applications prevent them from finishing the automation by the end of the sprint as they cannot develop the tests in advance, and have to wait until the stable deliverable is done. Test recording might help them to resolve the problem as it offers very fast test automation in comparison to other approaches. However, it results in a very expensive and a time demanding test maintenance. In this paper, we present an approach that helps the engineers with the maintenance by introducing a concept of automatically detected reusable parts within the test recordings. Those reusable parts increase the efficiency of the test recording approach, remove its main drawbacks, and help to bring test recording closer to scripting approaches.

Pages: 51 to 54

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: October 27, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-304-9

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from October 27, 2013 to October 31, 2013