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Noubar Akopian
dblp:351/7030
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2023
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper |
Software testing · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Software testing
automated testing |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | RobotBT: Behavior-Tree-Based Test-Case Specification for the Robot Framework · ISSTA 2023 |
Software testing › test process › test design
test case specification |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | RobotBT: Behavior-Tree-Based Test-Case Specification for the Robot Framework · ISSTA 2023 |
Software testing
GUI testing |
0.2 | 1 | 2023 | RobotBT: Behavior-Tree-Based Test-Case Specification for the Robot Framework · ISSTA 2023 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
behavior trees · 0.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | RobotBT: Behavior-Tree-Based Test-Case Specification for the Robot FrameworkabstractThe Robot Framework is a popular and widely used test automation framework that abstracts test case specifications toward natural language specifications. This makes it well suited for implementing high-level test cases, at least as long as the functions provided by Robot can support the intended functionality. For more complicated test cases, custom and often deeply nested functionality specifications are required, and the readability of Robot test cases tends to decrease. We present RobotBT, a library for the Robot framework that addresses these shortcomings by adding support for specifying test cases using behavior trees. Behavior trees are a comprehensive method for specifying complex behaviors based on a control flow model that orchestrates the execution of functionality. We evaluated RobotBT on a test suite for GUI testing from G~DATA CyberDefense AG and interviewed their engineers about the usability, readability, and applicability of RobotBT. Our results show that BTs improve the expressiveness and readability of Robot Framework test cases and are applicable to practical problems. Sven Peldszus, Noubar Akopian, Thorsten Berger |
ISSTA | 2 |