Automated feedback test generation and functionality testing for UI development with self-guided recommendation

Abstract

UI development is the most integral part of the Software Development Life Cycle and testing the functionality of the UI is also as much important during the Software Testing Life Cycle of any software project. Without proper testing, we will remain unaware of how an application is working and in which scenario the application fails to do what was intended. Graphical User Interface is directly related to user experience and pretty much determines the future usage of that application, so it is important to make the application responsive, user-friendly, and simple with a proper functioning interface. UI development and testing the functionality is very important and also a time and resource-consuming process as the GUI has to be fault free. To do that, every permutation of the GUI functionality needs to be tested to launch the application in time. An android application consists of many core and composite components and to make such a seamless and fault-free application, every component’s functionality has to fulfill its required functions. On one hand, testing the functionality of these components is necessary, on the other hand, the position of these components on the user interface is also as much important. As a result, a recommendation system is a must for the UI developer to save time during UI development which will make it easier for the developer to place each component in the correct position. Testing out all the functionality of a component is time consuming. Even though some tools make the testing easier, the necessity of an automated tool is felt during the UI development that can make sure that the UI developer is getting necessary recommendations of the component’s position and also able to check for himself if the components are reacting as it was intended to do. As a result, a huge amount of time and resources will be saved during software development. So in this paper, we intended to work on proposing a system that may give us the privilege of UI development and component functionality testing automation. functionality testing automation.