Analysis and testing of Web applications
ICSE '01 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering
HTTP Cookies: Standards, privacy, and politics
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
IEEE Internet Computing
Fast Antirandom (FAR) Test Generation
HASE '98 The 3rd IEEE International Symposium on High-Assurance Systems Engineering
Single Sign-On Using Cookies for Web Applications
WETICE '99 Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Enabling Technologies on Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
An Object-Oriented Web Test Model for Testing Web Applications
APAQS '00 Proceedings of the The First Asia-Pacific Conference on Quality Software (APAQS'00)
Automatic Test Generation using Checkpoint Encoding and Antirandom Testing
ISSRE '97 Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
ICSM '02 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'02)
Cookies on-the-move: managing cookies on a smart card
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM symposium on Applied computing
A 2-Layer Model for the White-Box Testing of Web Applications
WSE '04 Proceedings of the Web Site Evolution, Sixth IEEE International Workshop
Bypass Testing of Web Applications
ISSRE '04 Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
Testing web applications focusing on their specialties
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
TestUml: user-metrics driven web applications testing
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Leveraging User-Session Data to Support Web Application Testing
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Agile Security Testing of Web-Based Systems via HTTPUnit
ADC '05 Proceedings of the Agile Development Conference
Cache Cookies for Browser Authentication (Extended Abstract)
SP '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Automatic Cookie Usage Setting with CookiePicker
DSN '07 Proceedings of the 37th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
A Survey and Analysis of the P3P Protocol's Agents, Adoption, Maintenance, and Future
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
A Three-Tiered Testing Strategy for Cookies
ICST '08 Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation
An automatic HTTP cookie management system
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
A survey of cookie technology adoption amongst nations
Journal of Web Engineering
Proceedings of the 7th ACM symposium on QoS and security for wireless and mobile networks
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Automated cookie collection testing
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
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The results of an extensive investigation of cookie deployment amongst 100,000 Internet sites are presented. Cookie deployment is found to be approaching universal levels and hence there exists an associated need for relevant Web and software engineering processes, specifically testing strategies which actively consider cookies. The semi-automated investigation demonstrates that over two-thirds of the sites studied deploy cookies. The investigation specifically examines the use of first-party, third-party, sessional, and persistent cookies within Web-based applications, identifying the presence of a P3P policy and dynamic Web technologies as major predictors of cookie usage. The results are juxtaposed with the lack of testing strategies present in the literature. A number of real-world examples, including two case studies are presented, further accentuating the need for comprehensive testing strategies for Web-based applications. The use of antirandom test case generation is explored with respect to the testing issues discussed. Finally, a number of seeding vectors are presented, providing a basis for testing cookies within Web-based applications.