Title :
Towards Automatically Generating Test Paths for Web Application Testing
Author :
Miao, Huaikou ; Qian, Zhongsheng ; Song, Bo
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Eng. & Sci., Shanghai Univ., Shanghai
Abstract :
To ensure the requested quality of Web applications as expected, it is critical and challenging to test them. This work defines Web application schema and constructs Web application relation graph in order to model Web applications. An approach to generating test paths is presented by establishing path-generating graph which is derived from the Web application relation graph and used to produce path expressions. The test paths can be easily employed to construct test cases if user input values are provided. For illustration, a case study of the SWLS (Simple Web Login System) is exemplified. Moreover, a path generation strategy is suggested in accordance with the "divide and conquer" principle when the Web application under test is complicated. The strategy makes the Web application less complex and more controllable. This also restricts the state space explosion in a sense. The test path generation approach presented is an important supplement to the existing Web application testing.
Keywords :
Internet; automatic testing; divide and conquer methods; graph theory; program testing; Web application relation graph; Web application testing; automatic test path generation; divide and conquer principle; simple Web login system; state space explosion; Application software; Automatic testing; Explosions; Finance; Information technology; Navigation; Software engineering; Software testing; State-space methods; Web pages;
Conference_Titel :
Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering, 2008. TASE '08. 2nd IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Nanjing
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3249-3
DOI :
10.1109/TASE.2008.26