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288 | International Journal of Computer Systems, ISSN-(2394-1065), Vol. 03, Issue 03, March, 2016

International Journal of Computer Systems (ISSN: 2394-1065), Volume 03 – Issue 03, March, 2016

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Scrutiny of various GUI Integration Testing Tools and Initializing a Fresh Tool

M. Rajalakshmi, Dr. Viji Vinod

Department of Computer Applications,

Dr. MGR Educational and Research Institute University,Chennai – 95, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract

Software testing and remodeling exists frequently during the software development life cycle to detect errors as early as

possible. Software Testing cost 50% of the software development budget. Using automated testing tools nearly reduce the

testing cost. The success rate of software system depends upon the following: requirements elicitation technique,

modeling, analysis, minimal cost, reduce time of execution and finding bugs. In this paper discussed various GUI

automation testing tools which will help us to understand the automation testing as well as the comparison between the

tools available for integration testing. Nowadays, the integration of GUI application and Web services are very tedious

work. It takes two to three hours for whole project integration and execution. So, here just initializing the newintegration testing tool . A feature of new tools, advantages, reason for creating the new tool and also describes the

terminologies. This integration testing tool may easily access to developer, tester, client and new user.

Keywords: GUI & web application, automated testing tools, web services (SOA), software testing type, integration

testing tool.

I. I NTRODUCTION

Software engineering is a systematic and disciplinedapproach with the objective of solving the client’s problem

by developing high quality systems within time and budgetconstraints. If we have to write a small program, then wecan write it without using any of the software engineering

principles but in case of large and complex software. Achallenge for IT industry is to develop a software systemthat meets business needs. The fact is we are to deliversoftware that is free of bugs. The bugs in software cancause major loss in IT organization if they are not removed

before delivery. Testers, managers or other peopleinvolved in software testing follow their own criteria andthere are no predefined standards for it. So we are

providing a new solution to define a new regression testselection method which is based on tool support so thatregression test selection criteria can be more objective.Software testing is an important parameter developing

software that is free from bugs and defects. Softwaretesting is performed to support quality assurance [3]. Goodquality software can be made by using an efficient testmethod. Statistics say that 50% of the total cost of softwaredevelopment is devoted to software testing.

Test data can be designed either manually orautomatically. Software engineering research puts largeemphasis on automating the software development processthat produces large more complex quantities of code withless effort. For testing this software, we need to findadvance innovative support procedures to automate thetesting process [5]. In spite of continuous effort till todayautomated testing has limited impact in industry, where the

test generation activity remains largely manual. What weneed is 100% automated testing to reduce overall cost ofsoftware development with high quality. A number of test

data generation techniques such as random test datagenerator, path oriented test data generator, goal orientedtest data generator and intelligent test data generator have

been automated. Nowadays testing on networkingenvironment, i.e. To improve the scalability of softwaretesting is emphasized [5]. During this time test data

generation using hybrid method that takes the advantagesof both static and dynamic methods.

Here, initializing a new integration testing tool foravoiding to integrate the GUI application with web servicestake a long time for execution. This can be preferred agilemethod ie. Automatically update the client’s requirements.Integration testing tool (ITT) is a windows based tool thatmanages the automatic integration of the updated servicesand the front-end on a specific server (Environment). Thistool can be used for multi platform software applications(Web app, Desktop app and Mobile app) from a small-scale project to large-scale enterprise projects. Testers,developer or other people involved in software testing

follow their own criteria and there are no predefinedstandards for it. They are the modules that provide thingslike

File Handling

String Handling

Database Access

Logging Utilities

Error Handling Utilities.

So we are providing a new solution to define a newintegration testing tool, which is based on tool support so

that test case path selection criteria can be more objective.This paper is divided into four sections. The first

section depicts on various test case tool techniques using

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the GUI, The second section focuses on the comparison ofvarious testing tools and also mentioned supported OS andscript language. The third section describes a newintegration testing tool to be initialized and focus onfeatures and also describes about tool advantage andreasons. Finally the fourth section summarizes the

conclusion for reflecting the relevance of these techniquesand the future work.

II. LITERATURE REVIEW

Here, in this paper summarize their work-Integration ofall the data across tools, repositories and Integration ofcontrol across the tools, this Integration to provide a singlegraphical interface for the test tool set. Limitation: Itemphasizes only integration tools (usability and portability)[7].

In this paper discuss about the software industry has performed a significant amount of research on improvingsoftware quality using software tools and metrics that will

improve the software quality and reduce the overalldevelopment time. Good-quality code will also be easier towrite, understand, maintain and upgrade [8].

In this research work, design and Integration basedtesting tool (IBTT) based on their properties and it

behavior (test cases for Integration based test) for softwaredevelopment. A requirement specification for an IBT isestablished that would involve studying the feature setoffered by existing software testing tools, along with theirlimitations [9].

In this paper, discussed and proposed a novel approachfor automated test data generation for coupling based

integration testing of object oriented programs usinggenetic algorithm. This approach takes the coupling path asinput, containing different sub paths, and generates the testdata using genetic algorithms. This paper also implementeda prototype tool E-Coup in Java and successfully

performed in different experiments for the generation oftest data. In experiments with this tool, our approach hasmuch better results as compared to random testing [11].

The focus of this paper is on the instrumentationtechniques and an analysis tool built in Java programs. Itwas built in Java using the general Java parser JavaCC andthe Java Tree Builder (JTB). We are currently using thistool to gather experimental data on the efficacy and the

usefulness of the technique. [12] III. VARIOUS GUI TESTING TOOLS

GUI testing implies testing an application for its

design. It is used to test a software application/product

graphical user interface to ensure that it meets itsfunctionality and mentioned specifications. This can be

achieved both in manual and automation testing. As you

all know that manual testing takes a lot of time for testing

so it’s better to have automated GUI testing tools which

are available to meet the GUI requirements.

1) Abbot - Java based GUI testing framework amongvarious GUI testing tools available, then Abbot is the tool

that best matches our demand. With this tool, we can test

our Java user interface. The Abbot is an open source tool

which uses Costello as as script editor in its framework.

Abbot can be used in two ways, either as a script or as a

compiled code. It is a nice tool which can be also used for

unit and functional testing.

2) Eggplant - eggPlant is a QA automation and GUItesting tool for testers. This tool is based on image

matching technology and can be used for many different

testing methods such as: automation testing, black box

testing, functional testing and performance testing. This

amazing tool actually focuses on image based testing andimage comparison in a software application/product.

eggPlant is also available for a free trial period.

3) Ranorex - Ranorex is an attractive tool among the list of

best GUI testing tools. Ranorex provides a GUI test

automation framework to test desktop, web-based and

mobile applications. This tool doesn’t carry any scripting

language, but uses programming languages like C# andVB.NET. This tool can be used for a free trial period of 30

days.

4) Android GUITAR - Android GUITAR is a tool for

testing GUIs on the Android platform. Here, GUITAR

stands for Graphical User Interface Testing Framework.

Android applications running on an Android emulator can

easily test for its GUIs by communicating with plug-in of

an Android GUITAR tool. This tool has the ability to

generate automatic GUI tests.

5) HP WinRunner -HP WinRunner is one of the best toolsfor automating functional GUI test. This tool works with

HP Quick Test Professional and providing nice recording

and playback features. Here, recording mode can be of two

types- Context Sensitive Recording and Analog

Recording.

6) HP-UFT - QTP is the part of HP quality center tool

suite. It provides regression and functional testing

automation for the major software environment and

applications. It was originally written by

MercuryInteractive4, which was acquired by HP (HewlettPackard) in 2006.

7) SELENIUM - Selenium is not just a single tool, but a

suite that comprises of 4 tools1: selenium IDE, selenium

RC, selenium Webdrive, selenium grid. Selenium is an

open source automated testing suite that is built for web

applications supporting different browser and the

application. Selenium was developed by Jason Huggins in

2004 who working in through work which is a privately

owned global software delivery and products company.Ever since then Selenium has been making a tremendous

improvement and has come out as a strong tool for web

based automation testing

The main driver script connects to driven tables, readsdata like Core Engine file/Intermediates data file name,creates absolute path for these file names & is sent to theSub driver as a parameter. After Sub Driver completes

processing of the first intermediate data table, the control

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returns back to main driver which is now ready to send thenext intermediate data table for further execution. Theseabove tools are GUI application supporting tools. Thesetools are support functional, non-functional and businessrequirements.

IV. COMPARISON OF VARIOUS TESTING TOOLS

This section (TABLE 1) classifying the various testing

tools with latest version of the tool license, integrated

tools, supporting scripting languages and supporting

platform.

V. INITIALIZING NEW INTEGRATION TESTING

TOOL

Integration testing tool (ITT) is a different platform based tool that manages the automatic integration of the

updated services and the front-end on a specific server

(different Environment). This tool can be used for multi

platform software

applications (Web app, Desktop app and Mobile app) from

a small-scale project to large-scale enterprise projects. ITT

has a number of features designed to simplify service

integration across large organizational projects. Some of

the key features include,

1) The deployment can be made in multiple environments

2) Choice of particular services can be made without

affecting the whole project.

3) Type of application can also be chosen to work with.4) This tool does not require any coding knowledge.

5) Developer/Tester/Client anybody who knows the

architecture of the project can use this tool without any

guidance.

6) If one is looking for a simple code deployment service,

he/she should definitely look integration tool. The new

services will deploy with existing services and same way

Front end application.

7) Minimize downtime: tracks the application health and

performs rolling updates across integration targets. You

can deploy the previous revision in case of any failure.

Automatic integration: enables deployment across

different environments and thousands of deploymenttargets.

This tool can be made flexible to work with production

and training environment at the same time. Any

deployment made with this tool will not affect the live

application. Few advantages as and reasons for creating

this new integrating testing tool to be listed here,advantages as

1. Cost is very less

2. Integration time is very less

3. Stand one integration is available - only services or only

front-end

4. Programming languages are not required to access this

tool.

5. Any software application can be deployed with this tool.

6. This tool is a simple executable file and it is

independent of the operating system.

Reasons are,

1. The major reason of this tool compared to other tools in

the market is that we could integrate services, DB, FrontEnd application and server but other tools support only

services and servers.

S.NO TOOL Latest

Version

License Integrated

Tools

Scripting

Language

Platform

Supported

1 Abbot

Abbot

1.2.0

Eclipse

PublicLicense

Junit Java Microsoft OS

2 eggplantTestPlant Proprietary ALM Visual Design

Windows, Linux,

MAC OS, Solaris

3 Ranorex

Ranorex

5.1.3Proprietary None

Internet Explorer,

Firefox, Chrome

and Safari

Microsoft Windows

4AndroidGUITAR

GUITAR

1.0

General

PublicLicense

None NoneWindows, Linux,

Android

5HP

WinRunner

HewlettPackard

HP

WinRunner

Proprietary Test ScriptLanguage (TSL) Microsoft Windows

6 HP-UFTUFT

12.XXProprietary

ALM or

JenkinsVB Script Window and Mac

7 SELENIUMSelenium

1.2Proprietary

ANT +

Jenkins

Java, C#, Ruby,

Python, Perl, PHP,

Javascript

Windows , Linux ,

Solaris OS

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2. Other tools in the market require coding knowledge to

use it, but this tool is simple and user friendly.

3. Operation time of this tool is less compared to other

tools

4. Very less expensive compared to other tools and also

flexible for all types of users.

Terminologies & Description:

Package/Release: This term represents a set of physical

files to be eventually deployed, but bundled/compressed as

a single file. Integration testing tool recognizes the internal

structure of .Exe (Executable file) and path file formatsthat will be extracted for the targeted servers upon

integration.

New Services: With respect to the change request, these

services files are created as .exe. This executable file will

be linked with the existing services.

Server/ Environment: Servers are the target environmentwhich represents the network locations on which

package/release will be deployed. The Server may contain

several releases without affecting the previous version of

the application. Integration Operation: These operations

generally denote actions performed on target serverswhich include: deploy, integrity check, start, and stop and

runtime status.

VI. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK

In this paper we have analyzed different GUI automated

tools for testing. A variety of automation tools are feasible

for testing different applications. The main benefit ofusing automated tools is that you can avoid the manual

effort required to test each feature of your web site byautomating the tests. We have given compare different

types of integration testing tool techniques. Here, we have

initiated new integrating testing tool as support multiple

platforms with different languages. These designs can be

further translated into practical industrial tools. The

proposed technique focus on quality integration testing as

it reduces the time from three to four hours with least

minimal cost. And also this integration testing tool is

flexible for all types of users In the near futuredevelopment of efficient integration testing tools that will

assist in the creation of high-quality integrated testing tool

will become one of the most important tool in the industry.

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