Developing a Feedback-Driven Automated Testing Tool for Web Applications

Creating automated tests that exercise a web application through a browser is a challenging and time-consuming process. In this paper, we present a new tool currently under open-source development, Web Testing Explorer, which uses runtime state from the web application as feedback to search for defects in real-time and automatically create increasingly longer test cases with oracles for later execution while providing testers with the flexibility needed to deal with numerous web testing challenges.