Modelling and Verification of Web Navigation

Authors:
Zuohua Ding;Mingyue Jiang;Geguang Pu;Jeff W. Sanders
Affiliations:
Center of Math Computing and Software Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, P.R. China 310018;Center of Math Computing and Software Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, P.R. China 310018;Software Engineering Institute, East China Normal University, Shanghai, P.R. China 200062;International Institute for Software Technology, Unite Nations University, Macao
Venue:
ICWE '9 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Engineering
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Web navigation model provides a dynamic view for web modelling. It is useful for clarifying requirements and specifying implementation behaviors of systems from design intensions. In this paper, we propose a formal model to describe web navigation of user behaviors, where link activities play an important role. Several issues have been considered in our model, such as web browser effects, adaptive navigation, frame communication etc. After the link activity model is established, we use model checker SPIN to check whether there exist problems such as such as broken links, dead ends, missed reply pages, reachability of pages etc. This method can help us to analyze user behaviors, meanwhile it provides us a way to expose design faults in web systems.