Why Creating Web Page Objects Manually If It Can Be Done Automatically?

Author

Stocco, Andrea ; Leotta, Maurizio ; Ricca, Filippo ; Tonella, Paolo

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Inf., Bioingegneria, Robot. e Ing. dei Sist., Univ. di Genova, Genoa, Italy

fYear

2015

fDate

23-24 May 2015

Firstpage

70

Lastpage

74

Abstract

Page Object is a design pattern aimed at making web test scripts more readable, robust and maintainable. The effort to manually create the page objects needed for a web application may be substantial and unfortunately existing tools do not help web developers in such task. In this paper we present APOGEN, a tool for the automatic generation of page objects for web applications. Our tool automatically derives a testing model by reverse engineering the target web application and uses a combination of dynamic and static analysis to generate Java page objects for the popular Selenium WebDriver framework. Our preliminary evaluation shows that it is possible to use around 3/4 of the automatic page object methods as they are, while the remaining 1/4 need only minor modifications.

Keywords

Internet; Java; reverse engineering; APOGEN; Java page objects; Selenium WebDriver framework; Web developers; Web page objects; Web test; design pattern; dynamic analysis; reverse engineering; static analysis; target Web application; Automation; Indexes; Java; Manuals; Navigation; Testing; Web pages; Page Object Pattern; Program Analysis; Reverse Engineering; Selenium WebDriver; Testware Evolution; Web Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Automation of Software Test (AST), 2015 IEEE/ACM 10th International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Florence

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AST.2015.26

Filename

7166271