📄️ Introduction
This documentation describes the theoretical foundations and core concepts behind the Brobot framework, which are based on the principles of model-based GUI automation. This approach was designed to solve the long-standing challenges of fragility and complexity that plague traditional GUI automation methods.
📄️ Core Concepts of the Model-Based Approach
Model-based GUI automation addresses the limitations of traditional methods by redefining the problem. Instead of creating sequential scripts, the developer builds an explicit model of the GUI environment itself. This approach is inspired by principles from robotics, human cognition, and graph theory.
📄️ The Overall Model
The paper presents a formal mathematical model of GUI automation that provides a rigorous foundation for the framework. This model unifies the core components into a cohesive system, specifying how the system perceives the GUI, manages state, performs actions, and navigates the interface.
📄️ States
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📄️ Transitions
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📄️ Testing the Automation
A fundamental innovation of model-based GUI automation is its ability to enable systematic testing of the automation code itself. This introduces standard software engineering practices like unit and integration testing into a domain where they were previously considered infeasible.