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An Automated Web Application Testing System

by Moheb R. Girgis, Tarek M. Mahmoud, Bahgat A. Abdullatif, Alaa M. Zaki
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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 99 - Number 7
Year of Publication: 2014
Authors: Moheb R. Girgis, Tarek M. Mahmoud, Bahgat A. Abdullatif, Alaa M. Zaki
10.5120/17387-7926

Moheb R. Girgis, Tarek M. Mahmoud, Bahgat A. Abdullatif, Alaa M. Zaki . An Automated Web Application Testing System. International Journal of Computer Applications. 99, 7 ( August 2014), 37-44. DOI=10.5120/17387-7926

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title = { An Automated Web Application Testing System },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { August 2014 },
volume = { 99 },
number = { 7 },
month = { August },
year = { 2014 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 37-44 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume99/number7/17387-7926/ },
doi = { 10.5120/17387-7926 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
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Abstract

Web applications are dynamic and interactive, as compared to traditional applications. Therefore, traditional testing techniques and tools are not sufficient for web applications testing. This paper presents a proposed Web testing approach, in which hyperlinks of the website to be tested are automatically followed one by one to retrieve all HTML texts of its pages starting from the home page. The HTML text of each encountered page is analyzed to extract the needed information about it. Then, the collected information is used in the error checking process. The proposed approach guaranties the satisfaction of two web application testing criteria, namely page coverage criterion and hyperlink coverage criterion. The paper also describes an automated Web application testing system that has been developed to implement the proposed approach. The effectiveness of the proposed approach and the developed system in discovering several possible Web applications errors is demonstrated through a case study.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Web applications testing Web applications testing approach Web application testing criteria Automated web application testing system.

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