A REVIEW: GUI TESTING

Due to outburst in technology and software usage, testing the software is an important task. As GUI’s are critical components of today’s software, there should be more emphasis on GUI testing. Testing GUI’s correctness is critical for system usability, robustness and safety. The testing needs to be performed in a way that it improves the overall performance of GUI. Any application with poor user interface can lead to many problems. The importance of GUI tests lies in the fact that they are performed from view of end user of product. Therefore goal of GUI testing should be enhanced fault detection rate, good path coverage and increased efficiency. The challenges present in GUI testing may discourage developers and testers to the point that they may stop writing test cases. Due to contribution of good GUI in software success GUI testing is major concern, there exist a great requirement to include GUI testing in software testing process and a number of methods have been proposed by various experts for this purpose.