30 Years of Automated GUI Testing: A Bibliometric Analysis

Context: Over the last 30 years, GUIs have changed considerably, becoming everyday part of our lives through smart phones and other devices. More complex multitude platforms increased challenges when testing software GUI. Objective: To visualise how field automated GUI has evolved by studying growth field; types publications; influential events, papers authors; collaboration among trends on testing. Method: conduct a bibliometric analysis performing systematic search primary studies in Scopus from 1990 to 2020. Results: 744 publications were selected as studies. The majority them conference papers, most cited paper was published 2013, author 53 papers. Conclusions: Automated continuously grown. Keywords show that applied mobile interfaces will be trend next along with integration Artificial Intelligence exploration techniques.