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= Quest - ''QU'''ality assurance of '''E'''vent-driven '''S'''of'''T'''ware =

Welcome to the homepage of the Quest software quality assurance tool suite. Within the Quest project, we provide research prototypes for testing, analyzing, and observing event-driven software. The two main venues of the project are ''usage-based testing'' and ''usability analysis''. Quest consists of three main architectural components, as depicted by the following figure. 

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The '''Quest Core Library''' is independent of specific event-driven platforms and consists of seven components.
 * The ''Abstract Events'' provides the required classes and interfaces for working with an abstract notion of events independent of any platform. Furthermore, it includes the classes and interfaces required by GUI platforms to create an GUI model. This allows a very powerful and yet platform independent modelling of GUI events.
 * The components ''Usage Profiles'', ''Test Case Generation'', ''Test Oracles'', and ''Test Coverage'' provide support for usage-based software testing. 
 * The components ''Task Trees'' and ''Usability Evaluations'' facilitate usability analysis.

The '''Quest Plug-ins''' depend on the Quest Core Library and build the bridge between abstract events and the platform-independent tooling and concrete event-driven software platforms. Currently, Quest provides four plug-ins:
 * The ''Java Foundation Classes'' plug-in supports the analysis of Java applications with a JFC GUI (i.e., AWT/Swing).
 * The ''Microsoft Foundation Classes'' plug-in supports the analysis of Microsoft Windows applications with a MFC GUI. 
 * The ''PHP-based Web Applications'' plug-in supports the analysis of strictly PHP-based websites, i.e., all parts of the website have to use PHP, no other technologies, e.g., simple HTML are allowed.
 * The ''GUITAR'' plug-in provides a bridge to the [http://guitar.sourceforge.net/ GUITAR testing framework].
Furthermore, two additional plug-ins are currently planned.
 * The ''!JavaScript Web Monitoring'' plug-in will provide better support for the analysis of websites than the ''PHP-based Web Applications'' plug-in, to broaden the scope of websites we can analyze.
 * The ''SOA Applications'' will facilite the application of our techniques to Service Oriented Architectures.

== Infrastructure ==

 * SVN repository: https://eventbench.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/svn/quest/
 * Hudson CI server: https://trex.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/hudson/view/QUEST/
 * ohloh metrics: [https://www.ohloh.net/p/quest_]

== Authors ==
 * Steffen Herbold
 * Patrick Harms
 * Fabian Glaser
 * Jeffrey Hall

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