Last update: 2009-9-6

GTT: A GUI Testing Tool for Java applications

• Introduction to GTT
  • GTT is an open source project supported by the National Science Council, Taiwan, under contract number NSC-92-2218-E-027-017 and NSC-93-2218-E-027-041.
  • GTT is a tool for developing and executing test scripts for Java swing-based applications.  Test designers can develop test scripts by capturing and replaying user interactions.
  • In addition to Capture and Replay, GTT can be applied in a test-driven development style. This is not possible with other CR-based tools.
  • GTT applies Jemmy events as its event model. Thus designing test scripts is easy and efficient. In addition, GTT performs an abstraction of events during capturing. Thus, GTT test scripts are robust and easy to maintain.
  • GTT offers both view-assertion and model-assertion mechanisms as check points to automatically verify the correctness of the application under test.
  • GTT supports GTML, a GUI testing modeling language. A test script prepared in GTML is significantly easier to maintain and reuse than an ordinary tree-structured test script.

• Documents
  • An Introduction to GTT (pdf version)
  • A Tutorial of GTT (pdf version)
  • System Requirement Specifications (Traditional Chinese)
  • System Design Document (Traditional Chinese)
  • Testing Specification Document (Traditional Chinese)

• Sample Test Scripts
  • A GTML script for Word Processor version 8 (.txt format; .gtt format).
    • Note: (1) this script serves as an example to illustrate how GTML is used; (2) the ".txt" version is written in GTML language form and can be viewed directly by a text editor; (3) the ".gtt" version is functionally equivalent to ".txt" version; the only difference is that it can be directly loaded and executed by GTT; (4) the GTML script achieves 94% statement coverage.

• Publications
  • Integration of Specification-based and CR-based Approaches for GUI Testing, IEEE 19th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2005), pp. 967-972, 2005.
  • Integration of Specification-based and CR-based Approaches for GUI Testing, Journal of Information Science and Engineering, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 1293-1307, 2008. NSC 93-2218-E-027-041. (EI, SCI) Download

• Download
  • Please refer to GTT project page at sourceforge.