GUIDER: GUI structure and vision co-guided test script repair for Android apps

Tongtong Xu; Minxue Pan; Yu Pei; Guiyin Li; Xia Zeng; Tian Zhang; Yuetang Deng; Xuandong Li

doi:10.1145/3460319.3464830

GUIDER: GUI structure and vision co-guided test script repair for Android apps

Tongtong Xu, Minxue Pan, Yu Pei, Guiyin Li, Xia Zeng, Tian Zhang, Yuetang Deng, Xuandong Li

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

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Abstract

GUI testing is an essential part of regression testing for Android apps. For regression GUI testing to remain effective, it is important that obsolete GUI test scripts get repaired after the app has evolved. In this paper, we propose a novel approach named GUIDER to automated repair of GUI test scripts for Android apps. The key novelty of the approach lies in the utilization of both structural and visual information of widgets on app GUIs to better understand what widgets of the base version app become in the updated version. A supporting tool has been implemented for the approach. Experiments conducted on the popular messaging and social media app WeChat show that GUIDER is both effective and efficient. Repairs produced by GUIDER enabled 88.8% and 54.9% more test actions to run correctly than those produced by existing approaches to GUI test repair that rely solely on visual or structural information of app GUIs.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ISSTA 2021 - Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
Editors	Cristian Cadar, Xiangyu Zhang
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	191-203
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450384599
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3460319.3464830
Publication status	Published - 11 Jul 2021
Event	30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, ISSTA 2021 - Virtual, Online, Denmark Duration: 11 Jul 2021 → 17 Jul 2021

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Name	ISSTA 2021 - Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis

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Conference	30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, ISSTA 2021
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Virtual, Online
Period	11/07/21 → 17/07/21

Keywords

Android testing
GUI analysis
Test script repair

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computational Theory and Mathematics
Computer Science Applications
Software

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Xu, T., Pan, M., Pei, Y., Li, G., Zeng, X., Zhang, T., Deng, Y., & Li, X. (2021). GUIDER: GUI structure and vision co-guided test script repair for Android apps. In C. Cadar, & X. Zhang (Eds.), ISSTA 2021 - Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (pp. 191-203). Article 3464830 (ISSTA 2021 - Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3460319.3464830

Xu, Tongtong ; Pan, Minxue ; Pei, Yu et al. / GUIDER: GUI structure and vision co-guided test script repair for Android apps. ISSTA 2021 - Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis. editor / Cristian Cadar ; Xiangyu Zhang. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2021. pp. 191-203 (ISSTA 2021 - Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis).

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