WebRR: Self-Replay Enhanced Robust Record/Replay for Web Application Testing
Record-and-replay tools are important for quality assurance of Web applications by capturing user case scenarios and executing them automatically when needed. However, the tests generated by existing techniques are brittle, and often lead to test breakages as the dynamic behavior and frequent updates of modern Web applications. In this paper, we propose WebRR, a self-replay enhanced robust record-and-replay technique for Web applications testing. The novelty of WebRR is that, it introduces a new self-replay mechanism in the recording phase, which checks the captured event from the record module online, and generates multiple locators (including DOM locators, visual locator and proximity locators) automatically, to improve the robustness of generated test cases. During the replay, it combines multiple locators and new local workflow repair technique to repair test breakages, and can improve the resilience of generated tests to frequent updates of the applications. We applied our approach to 3 enterprise Web applications, which are deployed in a large power grid company of China. The experimental results show that WebRR is effective, and substantially improve the robustness of end-to-end web tests that are generated using record-and-replay technique.
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01:00 2mLong-paper | FrUITeR: A Framework for Evaluating UI Test Reuse Research Papers Yixue Zhao University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA, Justin Chen Columbia University, USA, Adriana Sejfia University of Southern California, USA, Marcelo Schmitt Laser University of Southern California, USA, Jie M. Zhang University College London, UK, Federica Sarro University College London, UK, Mark Harman University College London, UK, Nenad Medvidović University of Southern California, USA DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
01:03 1mTalk | ModCon: A Model-Based Testing Platform for Smart Contracts Tool Demos Ye Liu Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Yi Li Nanyang Technological University, Shang-Wei Lin Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Qiang Yan WeBank, n.n. DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
01:05 1mTalk | Object Detection for Graphical User Interface: Old Fashioned or Deep Learning or a Combination? Research Papers Jieshan Chen Australian National University, Australia, Mulong Xie Australian National University, Australia, Zhenchang Xing Australian National University, Australia, Chunyang Chen Monash University, Australia, Xiwei (Sherry) Xu Data61 at CSIRO, Australia, Liming Zhu Data61 at CSIRO, Australia / UNSW, Australia, Guoqiang Li Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China DOI | ||
01:07 1mTalk | UIED: A Hybrid Tool for GUI Element Detection Tool Demos Mulong Xie Australian National University, Australia, Sidong Feng Australian National University, Australia, Zhenchang Xing Australian National University, Australia, Jieshan Chen Australian National University, Australia, Chunyang Chen Monash University, Australia DOI | ||
01:09 1mTalk | WebRR: Self-Replay Enhanced Robust Record/Replay for Web Application Testing Industry Papers Zhenyue Long China Southern Power Grid, China, Guoquan Wu Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Xiaojiang Chen China Southern Power Grid, China, Wei Chen Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Jun Wei State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences DOI | ||
01:11 19mTalk | Conversations on Testing 1 Paper Presentations Guoquan Wu Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Jieshan Chen Australian National University, Australia, Sidong Feng Australian National University, Australia, Ye Liu Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Yixue Zhao University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA, Mulong Xie Australian National University, Australia, M: Corina S. Păsăreanu Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley, NASA Ames Research Center |