US 2021/0311862 A1 · SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELEMENT LOCATOR RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A UI APPLICATION

Abstract

System and method for element locator recommendations for testing a UI application include: executing tests; monitoring tests and observing which commands are called by each test to generate monitored data, where the monitored data includes which tests were executed, element locators that were used in the tests, relevant commands that were called by each test and related to the element locators that were used in the tests, and information about the UI application during the test execution; storing the monitored data; analyzing the stored monitored data; producing a set of recommended element locators to be used in place of previously used element locators for which the elements were not found during the execution of the tests; and utilizing the set of recommended element locators to complete the testing of the UI application software.

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A method for element locator recommendations for testing a User Interface (UI) application software by a test tool, the method comprising:

executing a plurality of tests by the test tool;
monitoring tests as they are executed and observing which commands of the test tool are called by each test being executed to generate monitored data, wherein the monitored data includes which tests were executed, element locators that were used in the tests, relevant commands that were called by each test and related to the element locators that were used in the tests, and information about the UI application software during the test execution;
storing the monitored data in a recorded data repository;
analyzing the monitored data stored in the recorded data repository;
producing a set of recommended element locators to be used by the test tool in place of previously used element locators for which the elements were not found during the execution of the tests;
and
utilizing the set of recommended element locators to complete the testing of the UI application software.

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A system for element locator recommendations for testing a User Interface (UI) application software comprising:

a software test tool for executing a plurality of tests by the test tool;
a monitor for monitoring tests as they are executed and observing which commands of the test tool are called by each test being executed to generate monitored data, wherein the monitored data includes which tests were executed, element locators that were used in the tests, relevant commands that were called by each test and related to the element locators that were used in the tests, and information about the UI application software during the test execution;
a data repository for storing the monitored data;
and
a locator creation engine for analyzing the monitored data stored in the data repository, and producing a set of recommended element locators to be used by the test tool in place of previously used element locators for which the elements were not found during the execution of the tests, wherein the software test tool utilizes the set of recommended element locators to complete the testing of the UI application software.

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