Replicating Rare Software Failures with Exploratory Visual GUI Testing
Journal article, 2017
Saab AB developed software that had a defect that manifested itself only after months of continuous system use. After years of customer failure reports, the defect still persisted, until Saab developed failure replication based on visual GUI testing.
Saab AB
software engineering
industry-academia collaboration
industrial success story
semiautomated testing
visual GUI testing
software development
software testing
failure replication
Author
Emil Alégroth
Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Software Engineering (Chalmers)
Johan Gustafsson
Saab
Henrik Ivarsson
Saab
Robert Feldt
Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, BTH
IEEE Software
0740-7459 (ISSN) 19374194 (eISSN)
Vol. 34 5 53-59 8048660Subject Categories
Computer and Information Science
DOI
10.1109/MS.2017.3571568