A Comparison of Executing Manual Tests and Automated Acceptance Tests in a Web Application

• Vanilton de Souza Freire Pinheiro UNINORTE
• Natasha M. Costa Valentim UFAM
• Auri Marcelo Rizzo Vincenzi UFG / USP

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbqs.2015.15231

Abstract

Quality assurance through testing is essential in the software development process. However, the high cost of performing manual tests and the growing number of web testing environments requested by customers, difficult to maintain product quality and to meet the deadline stablished. To solve this problem we propose the use of Behavior-Driven Development in conjunction with JUnit and Selenium WebDriver. This paper presents a case study on testing a web application, reporting the gains as a reduction in test execution effort. We also present the lessons learned from the case study.

Keywords: Comparative, Tests, Web Application

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