Title:

Integrating Customized Test Requirements with Traditional Requirements in Web Application Testing

Authors:

Sreedevi Sampath, Sara Sprenkle, Emily Gibson, and Lori Pollock

Abstract:

Existing test suite reduction techniques employed for testing web applications have either used traditional program coverage-based requirements or usage-based requirements. In this paper, we explore three different strategies to integrate the use of program coverage-based requirements and usage-based requirements in relation to test suite reduction for web applications. We investigate the use of usage-based test requirements for comparison of test suites that have been reduced based on program coverage-based test requirements. We examine the effectiveness of a test suite reduction process based on a combination of both usage-based and program coverage-based requirements. Finally, we modify a popular test suite reduction algorithm to replace part of its test selection process with selection based on usage-based test requirements. Our case study suggests that integrating program coverage-based and usage-based test requirements has a positive impact on the effectiveness of the resulting test suites.

Publisher:

ACM

Book Title:

Workshop on Testing, Analysis and Verification of Web Services and Applications

Pages:

23--32

Date:

July 2006

Project:

Web Application Testing

Document Type:

Conference Proceedings

Key Words:

user-session-based testing, test suite reduction, test requirements

Files:

[Paper: Adobe PDF] (162 KB)
[Presentation: Adobe PDF] (134 KB)

Bibtex Entry:

@inproceedings{123456789/160,
author = {Sreedevi Sampath and Sara Sprenkle and Emily Gibson and Lori Pollock},
title = {Integrating Customized Test Requirements with Traditional Requirements in Web Application Testing},
booktitle = {Workshop on Testing, Analysis and Verification of Web Services and Applications},
pages = {23--32},
publisher = {ACM},
month = {July},
year = {2006}
}