A Survey on Models and Test strategies for Event-Driven Software

A Graphical User Interface (GUI) testing tool is one to test applications user Interface and to detect the correctness of applications functionality. Event-Driven Software (EDS) can change state based on incoming events; common examples are GUI and web applications. These EDS pose a challenge to testing because there are a large number of possible event sequences that users can invoke through a user interface. While valuable contributions have been made for testing these two subclasses of EDS, such efforts have been disjoint. This work provides the first single model that is generic enough to study GUI and web applications together. This paper presentsdetail survey of the existing GUI testing tools . This paperalso summarizes various existing automated GUI testing approaches such as PerformanceTesting and Analysis (PTA), Model Based Testing (MBT), Combinatorial InteractionTesting (CIT), (GUI)-based Applications (GAPs). The feasibility of using java GUI captureand replay tools for GUI performance test automation has been studied. The severelimitations of GUI tools when used for recording and replaying realistic session of the realworld Java applications have been also addressed. Various GUI testing tool are comparedin terms of performance.In this we use the model to define generic prioritization criteria that are applicable to both GUI and web applications. Our ultimate goal is to evolve the model and use it to develop a unified theory of how all EDS should be tested.