A distributed, cross-platform automation testing framework for GUI-driven applications

With the rapid development of computer technology, nowadays GUIs have been widely used in desktop applications and web applications. GUI-driven application testing is an emergent approach to software testing and plays a key role to assure software quality. This paper first discusses the various methods for testing GUI-driven applications, and then defines a GUI model and formally defines the test case and the test suite. Finally, it proposes a novel automated, distributed and cross-platform testing framework for GUI. Experiments conducted showed that the proposed testing architecture managed to use parallel cross-platform clusters to test heterogeneous applications whose technologies were incompatible with the testing framework.