Structural Feature Extraction for GUI Test Enhancement

The challenging goal of designing interactive systems is to prevent faults caused by the control unit that could potentially lead to failures. When designing interactive systems, it is the behavior that is dominant in the process of modeling. Nevertheless, structural features in software application programming and their organization are seldom taken into account for test derivation. The consequence is a reduction in fault coverage with regard to find structural defects in such systems. This paper introduces an approach to reveal structural features of such systems that expose further test opportunities. The approach uses a graphical, event-based model of which structural features are extracted by simple transformations resulting into an increased fault coverage.