Patent ID: 9311222
Filing Date: 2016-04-12
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: identifying a particular one of a plurality of interactions with a particular graphical user interface (GUI) of a software system as an interaction with a particular GUI element of the GUI, wherein the plurality of interactions comprise a plurality of recorded interactions; determining, from an abstraction layer, a particular GUI element construct corresponding to a particular type of the particular GUI element, wherein the abstraction layer defines, for each of a plurality of GUI element types, a respective GUI element construct, and a plurality of different implementations of GUI elements of the particular type are mapped to the particular GUI element construct, and the particular GUI element comprises a particular one of the plurality of implementations of the GUI elements of the particular type; and generating at least a portion of an instruction for inclusion in a test of the software system, the instruction referencing the particular GUI element as an instance of the particular GUI element construct.