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                          Testing User Interfaces

   Date:    26.06.97
   Time:    10:30
   Venue:   F013, UvA WINS
   Speaker: Gerjon de Vries
   Title:   Testing User Interfaces

    1. There  are  a  lot  of tools and methods available to the software
       engineering,  that  aid in the development of platform independent
       applications.   However,  most  of  these  tools  share  the  same
       drawback:  the  generated  applications  use  an interface that is
       directed  to  one of the targeted platforms. Platform independence
       almost never means interface independence.
    2. Much  research  is  done  in  the field of program testing. But it
       remains  an  incredible difficult task to test programs with a GUI
       automatically.  Besides that, most companies choose a testing tool
       to  fit  their  software  architecture. Testing could be much more
       effective  when  the  software  architecture  is chosen to fit the
       testing methods.

   I  am  working on a project that addresses both of these symptoms. The
   result  will  be  an  application  framework.  The framework should be
   extensible  in  an interface independent way. So different versions of
   the  framework  may  target  an  application  to  different (types of)
   interfaces.  One very special version of the framework will not target
   an   interface,  but  can  be  used  to  test  the  application  under
   development.  The  test  framework  should  aid  in the automation of:
   testcase-generation  and  -execution and oracle definition. To achieve
   this,   I   will  introduce  a  new  software  architecture.  In  that
   architecture  a layer is introduced between model and view-controller.
   Besides  that a more clear division is made between the three building
   blocks,  and  the  controller  is  divided in a user-controller and an
   application-controller. I will also show how automation of the testing
   process is achieved with this new architecture
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