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To develop an automated reverse-engineering technique that extracts behavioral and structural models directly from executable graphical user interfaces to enable automated test case generation.

July 8, 2004

GUI ripping: reverse engineering of graphical user interfaces for testing

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AMAzhar M. MemonKing Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals IBIshan BanerjeeChennai Mathematical Institute ANArvind NagarajanNetherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research

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Experimental evaluation demonstrates automated model extraction in graphical user interfaces, highlighting reduced human intervention for regression testing.

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To develop an automated reverse-engineering technique that extracts behavioral and structural models directly from executable graphical user interfaces to enable automated test case generation.
Developed 'GUI Ripping,' a dynamic exploration algorithm that traverses running applications by opening windows and extracting widgets, properties, and values.
Constructed hierarchical GUI models comprising GUI forests, event-flow graphs, and integration trees from the ripped data.
Implemented the technique into a downloadable tool suite evaluated across Java and Microsoft Windows applications.
Demonstrated that dynamic GUI ripping extracts structural models with minimal manual designer intervention compared to traditional manual modeling.
Showed that the reverse-engineered models effectively generate automated test cases suitable for regression testing of rapidly evolving software.
Confirmed the scalability and feasibility of the ripping tool across several large experimental case studies.

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Memon et al. (2004) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a15becad64fa33389a003cd https://doi.org/10.1109/wcre.2003.1287256

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Experimental evaluation demonstrates automated model extraction in graphical user interfaces, highlighting reduced human intervention for regression testing.

GUI ripping: reverse engineering of graphical user interfaces for testing

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GUI ripping: reverse engineering of graphical user interfaces for testing

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