Web Application Model Generation through Reverse Engineering and UI Pattern Inferring

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2014

Authors

Clara Sacramento (Author) FEUP; Ana C. R. Paiva (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Proceedings - 2014 9th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, QUATIC 2014

Pages: 105-115

9th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, QUATIC 2014

23 September 2014 through 26 September 2014

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ISI Web of Knowledge - 13 Citations

ISI Web of Science

Scopus - 20 Citations

INSPEC

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Engineering > Computer engineering

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00A-3J2

DOI: 10.1109/quatic.2014.20

Abstract (EN): A great deal of effort in model-based testing is related to the creation of the model. In addition, the model itself, while a powerful tool of abstraction, can have conceptual errors, introduced by the tester. These problems can be reduced by generating those models automatically. This paper presents a dynamic reverse engineering approach that aims to extract part of the model of an existing web application through the identification of User Interface (UI) patterns. This reverse engineering approach explores automatically any web application, records information related to the interaction, analyses the gathered information, tokenizes it, and infers the existing UI patterns via syntactical analysing. After being complemented with additional information and validated, the model extracted is the input for the Pattern-Based Graphical User Interface Testing (PBGT) approach for testing existing web application under analysis.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 6