[HTML][HTML] Scripted and scriptless GUI testing for web applications: An industrial case

A Bons, B Marín, P Aho, TEJ Vos - Information and Software Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Context: Automation is required in the software development to reduce the high costs of
producing software and to address the short release cycles of modern development …

Comparing the effectiveness of capture and replay against automatic input generation for Android graphical user interface testing

S Di Martino, AR Fasolino, LLL Starace… - Software Testing …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Exploratory testing and fully automated testing tools represent two viable and cheap
alternatives to traditional test‐case‐based approaches for graphical user interface (GUI) …

[HTML][HTML] A family of experiments to quantify the benefits of adopting WebDriverManager and Selenium-Jupiter

M Leotta, B García, F Ricca - Information and Software Technology, 2025 - Elsevier
Context: While test automation offers numerous benefits, it also introduces significant
challenges. Two challenges that developers and testers face on a daily basis, particularly …

Accelerating OCR-based widget localization for test automation of GUI applications

J Qian, Y Ma, C Lin, L Chen - Proceedings of the 37th IEEE/ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Optical character recognition (OCR) algorithms often run slow. They may take several
seconds to recognize the texts on a GUI screen, which makes OCR-based widget …

Estimating return on investment for gui test automation frameworks

F Dobslaw, R Feldt, D Michaëlsson… - 2019 IEEE 30th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automated graphical user interface (GUI) tests can reduce manual testing activities and
increase test frequency. This motivates the conversion of manual test cases into automated …

Feature matching-based approaches to improve the robustness of Android visual GUI testing

L Ardito, A Bottino, R Coppola, F Lamberti… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
In automated Visual GUI Testing (VGT) for Android devices, the available tools often suffer
from low robustness to mobile fragmentation, leading to incorrect results when running the …

An Empirical Study on the Adoption of Scripted GUI Testing for Android Apps

R Gu, JM Rojas - … 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, Android applications have become larger with the introduction of new
features and integration with external APIs and services. As a consequence, testing these …

Fragility of layout-based and visual GUI test scripts: an assessment study on a hybrid mobile application

R Coppola, L Ardito, M Torchiano - Proceedings of the 10th acm sigsoft …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Context: Albeit different approaches exist for automated GUI testing of hybrid mobile
applications, the practice appears to be not so commonly adopted by developers. A possible …

Translation from layout-based to visual android test scripts: An empirical evaluation

R Coppola, L Ardito, M Torchiano, E Alégroth - Journal of Systems and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Mobile GUI tests can be classified as layout-based–ie using GUI properties as locators–or
Visual–ie using widgets' screen captures as locators–. Visual test scripts require significant …

[HTML][HTML] Investigating the robustness of locators in template-based Web application testing using a GUI change classification model

M De Luca, AR Fasolino, P Tramontana - Journal of Systems and Software, 2024 - Elsevier
GUI-based test-cases generated by Capture and Replay tools suffer from the well-known
fragility problem: they may break even if small layout changes are operated in a Web …