A Tool Set to Support Web Application Testing

Abstract

The development and deployment of Web-based applicatios are getting prevalent in the Internet and Intranet environment. A Web-based application usually requires programming for both web servers and browsers. Seaeral frameworks and techniques have been proposed to ease the development of web-base application. For example, Microsoft InterDev and FrontPage are provided to support software development of such style. However, few tools are provided to directly support the software testing on Web-based applications. In this paper, a set of software tools is proposed to support the tesing of web-based applications. The tool set covers applicatons model extraction, test execution automation, and test design automation. Inaddition, a graph-based application model is also presented to model the behavior of web-based applications. With the graphic presentation, several traditional software testing techniques are extended to test Web-based applications.