Author
Sunman, Nezih, Soydan, Yiğit, Sözer, Hasan
Publication Date
2022-11
Publication Place
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Elsevier
Subject
Exploratory testing, Model-based testing, Test automation, Test case generation, Web application testing
Type
Periodical
Language
English
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Özyeğin University
Library Asset ID
0164-1212
Record ID
f9090227-6760-4d14-91b7-caddd21bec30
Library Location
Computer Science
Date
2022-11
Sample Text
There are fully automated approaches proposed for Web application testing. These approaches mainly rely on tools that explore an application by crawling it. The crawling process results in a state transition model, which is used for generating test cases. Although these approaches are fully automated, they consume too much time and they usually require manual configuration. This is due to the lack of insight and domain knowledge of crawling tools regarding the application under test. We propose a semi-automated approach instead. We introduce a tool that takes a set of recorded event sequences as input. These sequences can be captured during exploratory tests. They are replayed as pre-recorded test cases. They are also exploited for steering the crawling and test case generation process. We performed a case study with 5 Web applications. These applications were randomly tested with state-of-the-art tools. Our approach can reduce the crawling time by hours, while compromising the coverage achieved by 0.2% to 7.43%. In addition, our tool does not require manual configuration before crawling. The input for the tool was created within 15 min of exploratory testing..
DOI
10.1016/j.jss.2022.111441
Cilt
193
