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Modeling presentation layers of web applications for testing

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Offutt, Jeff Wu, Ye
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	Web software applications have become complex, sophisticated programs that are based on novel computing technologies. Their most essential characteristic is that they represent a different kind of software deployment—most of the software is never delivered to customers’ computers, but remains on servers, allowing customers to run the software across the web. Although powerful, this deployment model brings new challenges to developers and testers. Checking static HTML links is no longer sufficient; web applications must be evaluated as complex software products. This paper focuses on three aspects of web applications that are unique to this type of deployment: (1) an extremely loose form of coupling that features distributed integration, (2) the ability that users have to directly change the potential flow of execution, and (3) the dynamic creation of HTML forms. Taken together, these aspects allow the potential control flow to vary with each execution, thus the possible control flows cannot be determined statically, prohibiting several standard analysis techniques that are fundamental to many software engineering activities. This paper presents a new way to model web applications, based on software couplings that are new to web applications, dynamic flow of control, distributed integration, and partial dynamic web application development. This model is based on the notion of atomic sections, which allow analysis tools to build the analog of a control flow graph for web applications. The atomic section model has numerous applications in web applications; this paper applies the model to the problem of testing web applications.
Starting Page	257
Ending Page	280
Page Count	24
File Format	PDF
ISSN	16191366
Journal	Software and Systems Modeling
Volume Number	9
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	16191374
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2009-08-09
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Web applications Web modeling Test criteria Business Information Systems Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet) Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters Software Engineering Programming Techniques Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Modeling and Simulation Software

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