A Combined Model with Test Prioritizing for Testing an Event Driven Software

Baskaran Periyasamy^1, and R. Ashok kumar¹

¹SNS College of Engineering, Coimbatore

Cite this paper:
Baskaran Periyasamy and R. Ashok kumar. A Combined Model with Test Prioritizing for Testing an Event Driven Software. American Journal of Software Engineering. 2015; 3(1):1-5. doi: 10.12691/ajse-3-1-1

Abstract

Event-Driven Software (EDS) can transform the state based on incoming events; common examples are GUI, Web and Embedded applications. These EDSs pose a confront to testing because there are a large number of promising event sequences that users can raise through a user interface. This system provides the single model that is generic enough to study Graphical User Interface (GUI), Web and Embedded applications collectively. It uses the model to describe general prioritization criteria that are appropriate to EDS applications. The ultimate goal is to evolve the model and use it to extend a unified theory of how well all EDS should be tested. The project shows that the GUI, Web-based and Embedded applications, when recast by means of the new model, show related performance. This criterion that gives precedence to all pairs of event contacts did well for GUI, Web and Embedded applications; another condition that gives priority to the minimum number of parameter value settings did weakly for all. In this system by considering the prioritization criteria the order of test cases that are to be executed for the EDS application will be generated. These results emphasize the principle that these three subclasses of applications should be modeled collectively.

Keywords:
Event-Driven Software GUI EDS user interface test prioritization parameter test case test sequence

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