Poster: Testing Web-Based Applications with the Voice Controlled Accessibility and Testing Tool (VCAT)

Many web applications and software engineering tools such as test generators are not accessible for users who do not use traditional input devices such as mouse and keyboard. To address this shortcoming of current applications, this work leverages recent speech recognition advances to create a browser plugin that interprets voice inputs as web browser commands and as steps in a corresponding test case. In an initial experiment, the resulting Voice Controlled Accessibility and Testing tool (VCAT) prototype for Chrome and Selenium yielded a lower overall runtime than a traditional test creation approach.