TESTING WEB APPLICATIONS INTELLIGENTLY BASED ON AGENT

Lei Xu, Baowen Xu

2005

Abstract

Web application testing is concerned with numerous and complicated testing objects, methods and processes. In order to improve the testing efficiency, the automatic and intelligent level of the testing execution should be enhanced. So combined with the specialties of the Web applications, the necessity and feasibility of the automatic and intelligent execution of the Web application testing are analyzed firstly; Then, on the base of the related work, the executing process of the Web application testing is detailedly described and thoroughly analysed, so as to determine the steps and flows of the testing execution along with the adopted techniques and tools; next, improve the capture-replay technique and make it fit for the dynamic characters of Web applications, and adopt the intelligent Agent to realize the monitor, management and exception-handler of the whole testing execution. Thus, in this way, the process of the Web application testing can be implemented automatically and intelligently.

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Xu L. and Xu B. (2005). TESTING WEB APPLICATIONS INTELLIGENTLY BASED ON AGENT . In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-19-8, pages 194-199. DOI: 10.5220/0002540501940199


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis05,
author={Lei Xu and Baowen Xu},
title={TESTING WEB APPLICATIONS INTELLIGENTLY BASED ON AGENT},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2005},
pages={194-199},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002540501940199},
isbn={972-8865-19-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - TESTING WEB APPLICATIONS INTELLIGENTLY BASED ON AGENT
SN - 972-8865-19-8
AU - Xu L.
AU - Xu B.
PY - 2005
SP - 194
EP - 199
DO - 10.5220/0002540501940199