• DocumentCode
    2600633
  • Title

    Automated web application testing using search based software engineering

  • Author

    Alshahwan, Nadia ; Harman, Mark

  • Author_Institution
    CREST Centre, Univ. Coll. London, London, UK
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    6-10 Nov. 2011
  • Firstpage
    3
  • Lastpage
    12
  • Abstract
    This paper introduces three related algorithms and a tool, SWAT, for automated web application testing using Search Based Software Testing (SBST). The algorithms significantly enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of traditional search based techniques exploiting both static and dynamic analysis. The combined approach yields a 54% increase in branch coverage and a 30% reduction in test effort. Each improvement is separately evaluated in an empirical study on 6 real world web applications.
  • Keywords
    Internet; program diagnostics; program testing; SWAT; automated Web application testing; dynamic analysis; search based software engineering; search based software testing; static analysis; Acceleration; Algorithm design and analysis; HTML; Heuristic algorithms; Instruments; Testing; Vectors; Automated Test data generation; SBSE; Web applications;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2011 26th IEEE/ACM International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Lawrence, KS
  • ISSN
    1938-4300
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1638-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ASE.2011.6100082
  • Filename
    6100082
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2600633