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\"logo-testar\"<\/a>WHAT IS TESTAR?<\/b><\/p>\n

TESTAR is a tool that enables the automated system testing of desktop, web and mobile applications at the GUI<\/em> level.
\nSince 2014, TESTAR has been deployed and used in several companies with impressive results, which show its potential to grow into a full-fledged tool that can help companies improve system testing at the GUI level.
\nTESTAR is available under the BSD3 license<\/a>.<\/p>\n

WHERE DOES IT COME FROM?<\/b><\/p>\n

TESTAR has been developed within the context of the FITTEST<\/a> (Future Internet Testing) project (EU project no: 257574 FP7 Call 8 ICT-Objective 1.2 Service Architectures and Infrastructures) that run from 2010 till 2013.<\/p>\n

HOW DOES IT WORK?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

TESTAR automatically executes\u00a0test\u00a0sequences following the steps in the diagram below.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Test<\/p>\n

Basically:<\/p>\n

Start<\/strong> the System Under Test (SUT), optionally instrument<\/strong> it (e.g. to obtain internal information necessary to guide the search).<\/p>\n

Scan<\/strong>\u00a0(or scrape) the GUI in order to obtain the state of all control elements on the screen (type, position, enabled\/disabled, etc.)<\/p>\n

Generate \u00a0widget tree<\/strong>. This is\u00a0a hierarchical representation that enables TESTAR to derive a set of sensible actions (such as clicks, keystrokes, drag and drop operations,etc.).<\/p>\n

Select<\/strong> promising actions (actions that are likely to expose faults) according to TESTAR\u2019s internal search state, and execute<\/strong>them.<\/p>\n

Repeat<\/strong>: Tree generation, action derivation, action selection and execution are repeated until the desired sequence length has been reached.<\/p>\n

Stop<\/strong>: Eventually, depending on the criteria used for the tool\u2019s fitness function, the generated sequence is rated and the SUT stopped.<\/p>\n

Start again:<\/strong> In the next iteration the tool generates another sequence and repeats sequence generation until.<\/p>\n

End<\/strong>: when a certain stopping criterion (e.g. time or a particular number\u00a0of sequences) has been met.<\/p>\n

Read More<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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