NDLI: Automating Coverage Metrics for Dynamic Web Applications

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Alalfi, M.H. Cordy, J.R. Dean, T.R.
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	Building comprehensive test suites for web applications poses new challenges in software testing. Coverage criteria used for traditional systems to assess the quality of test cases are simply not sufficient for complex dynamic applications. As a result, faults in web applications can often be traced to insufficient testing coverage of the complex interactions between the components. This paper presents a new set of coverage criteria for web applications, based on page access, use of server variables, and interactions with the database. Following an instrumentation transformation to insert dynamic tracking of these aspects, a static analysis is used to automatically create a coverage database by extracting and executing only the instrumentation statements of the program. The database is then updated dynamically during execution by the instrumentation calls themselves. We demonstrate the usefulness of our coverage criteria and the precision of our approach on the analysis of the popular internet bulletin board system PhpBB 2.0.
Starting Page	51
Ending Page	60
File Size	312909
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781612843698
ISSN	15345351
e-ISBN	9780769543215
DOI	10.1109/CSMR.2010.21
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-03-15
Publisher Place	Spain
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Databases Instruments Servers Testing Measurement Grammar Arrays Web Applications Reverse Engineering Maintenance Enhancement
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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