User Interface Test Coverage

A method comprising:

• performing by a computer system programmed with code stored in a memory and executing by a processor of the computer system which transforms the computer system into a machine to determine the coverage by test code of user interface (UI) components in a computer program:
• (a) locating a UI object in one of the UI components by following a mapped objects hierarchical path in a UI map from a root UI object down to the UI object being located;
• (b) linking the UI object located with an image showing how the UI object in the UI component looks like when the UI of the computer program is actually visually displayed;
• (c) storing the link, an identifier (ID) of the UI object located, and screen location coordinate information of the UI object located in a UI component name mapping database;
• (d) repeating (a)-(c) for the UI objects in the UI map;
• (e) extracting from the test code, ID's of the UI components that are being accessed by the test code;
• (f) determining the coverage by the test code of the UI components by comparing a number of UI components in the computer program relative to a number of UI components extracted from the test code;
• and
• (g) generating a report of the coverage by the test code.