Automated web application testing using search based software engineering

Automated web application testing using search based software engineering

This paper introduces three related algorithms and a tool, SWAT, for automated web application testing using Search Based Software Testing (SBST). The algorithms significantly enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of traditional search based techniques exploiting both static and dynamic analysis....

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Hauptverfasser: Alshahwan, Nadia, Harman, Mark
Format: Tagungsbericht
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Acceleration
Algorithm design and analysis
Automated Test data generation
Heuristic algorithms
HTML
Instruments
SBSE
Testing
Vectors
Web applications
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Zusammenfassung:This paper introduces three related algorithms and a tool, SWAT, for automated web application testing using Search Based Software Testing (SBST). The algorithms significantly enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of traditional search based techniques exploiting both static and dynamic analysis. The combined approach yields a 54% increase in branch coverage and a 30% reduction in test effort. Each improvement is separately evaluated in an empirical study on 6 real world web applications.
ISSN:1938-4300
2643-1572
DOI:10.1109/ASE.2011.6100082