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GUIsurfer: A Reverse Engineering Framework for User Interface Software
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Fig. 11. HSM’s pagerank results
6. Conclusions and future work
This Chapter presented an approach to GUI reasoning using reverse engineering techniques.
This document concludes with a review of the work developed. The resulting research
contributions are presented and directions for future work are suggested.
The first Section describes the contributions of the Chapter. A discussion about GUISURFER
limitations is provided in Section 2. Finally, the last Section presents some future work.
6.1 Summary of contributions
The major contribution of this work is the development of the GUISURFER prototype,
an approach for improving GUI analysis through reverse engineering. This research
has demonstrated how user interface layer can be extracted from different source codes,
identifying a set of widgets (graphical objects) that can be modeled, and identifying also a
set of user interface actions. Finally this Chapter has presented a methodology to generate
behavioural user interface models from the extracted information and to reason about it.
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