The project ESSPE aims to provide a comprehensive framework for automated testing (including security tests) in software projects.

ESSPE is designed as a model-based test framework with the following primary goals:

• Linkage of existing test tools in one framework (Selenium, FEST, …)
• Concurrent governance and analysis of different technologies (e.g., concurrent operation of website and mobile device)
• Abstraction of the system under test (SUT) and the test cases
• Application testing by using their graphical user interface (GUI)
• Easily extensible and usable test framework
• Support for different roles in software projects (developer, software tester, security tester, manager)

As a result, ESSPE enables testers and developers to write more complex test cases. For example, a mobile app which stores data on a server by using REST calls. The created data should then be available in the general web interface of a web application. With ESSPE it is possible to operate and test the mobile application as well as the web application at the same time within the same test case.

Currently, ESSPE provides the following features:

• ESSPE supports the following technologies for testing:
  • Web applications via Selenium
  • Java Swing applications via FEST
  • Mobile devices (apps) via Selendroid and Appium
  • RESTful services (protocol based)
• Linkage of existing test tools:
  • JUnit
  • TestNG
  • Cucumber
• Connection to existing issue tracking systems (ITSs):
  • Redmine
  • Mantis
  • Track
• Automated generation of test data based on models
• Rudimentary security tests

Collaboration

If you’re interested in contributing to this project, please have a look at our topics for bachelor and master theses as well as projects. You can also contact us with your own ideas relating to ESSPE.

Contact

Project lead and main contributor is Stefan Taber. For further information please contact us by sending an e-mail to peso@inso.tuwien.ac.at.