Title:
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A Case Study of Automatically Creating Test Suites from Web Application Field Data
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Authors:
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Sara Sprenkle, Emily Gibson, Sreedevi Sampath, and Lori Pollock
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Abstract:
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Creating effective test cases is a difficult problem, especially for web applications. To comprehensively test a web application's
functionality, test cases must test complex application state dependencies and concurrent user interactions. Rather than creating test cases manually or from a static model, field data provides an inexpensive alternative to creating such sophisticated test cases. An existing approach to using field data in testing web applications is user-session-based testing. Previous user-session-based testing approaches ignore state dependences from multi-user interactions. In this paper, we propose strategies for leveraging web application field
data to automatically create test cases that test various levels of multi-user interaction and state dependencies. Results from our preliminary case study of a publicly deployed web application show
that these test case creation mechanisms are a promising testing strategy for web applications.
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Publisher:
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ACM
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Book Title:
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Workshop on Testing, Analysis and Verification of Web Services and Applications (TAV-WEB 2006)
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Date:
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July 2006
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Project:
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Web Application Testing
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Document Type:
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Conference Proceedings
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Key Words:
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field data, capture/replay, web applications, test-case generation, multi-user interactions, emulate deployed behavior
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Files:
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[preprint: Adobe PDF] (150 KB)
[presentation slides: Adobe PDF] (1063 KB)
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Bibtex Entry:
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| @inproceedings{123456789/159, |
| author = {Sara Sprenkle and Emily Gibson and Sreedevi Sampath and Lori Pollock}, |
| title = {A Case Study of Automatically Creating Test Suites from Web Application Field Data}, |
| booktitle = {Workshop on Testing, Analysis and Verification of Web Services and Applications (TAV-WEB 2006)}, |
| publisher = {ACM}, |
| month = {July}, |
| year = {2006} |
| } |
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