Automating GUI Test of Windows Phone7 Applications
Sang-Hwa Lee, Bup-Ki Min, Seung-Hak Kuk, Hyeon Soo Kim · Jeongbo gwahaghoe nonmunji. so'peuteuweeo mich eung'yong · 2012
In the smartphone industry, Windows Phone7 platform is expected to be comparable to the iPhone or the Android platform. Thus many vendors have concern for development of Windows Phone7-based applications, and in the near future they will develop numerous applications. While, the GUI components in the smartphone applications are recognized as the important means to interact with the user, so they must be tested. However, researches about the tools and the methodology for testing Windows Phone7-based applications are very insufficient. This paper classifies types of GUI errors on Windows Phone7-based applications such as the mismatch of information between a XAML file and a CS file, incompatibility of GUI components between on the old platforms and on the new ones, and unexpected results. Also, we suggest the methods to detect these errors. For this, we have implemented a test tool which can construct the test scenarios and also generates automatically the test codes according to the scenarios. The tool uses XAML files containing GUI information and SoftHai test framework which can test Windows Phone7-based applications. This research can promote efficiency of GUI tests by generating test codes automatically. As a result, it is expected to improve the quality of Windows Phone7-based applications.