Web Navigation Sequences Automation in Modern Websites

Authors:
Paula Montoto;Alberto Pan;Juan Raposo;Fernando Bellas;Javier López
Affiliations:
Department of Information and Communication Technologies, University of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain 15071;Department of Information and Communication Technologies, University of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain 15071;Department of Information and Communication Technologies, University of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain 15071;Department of Information and Communication Technologies, University of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain 15071;Department of Information and Communication Technologies, University of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain 15071
Venue:
DEXA '09 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Most today's web sources are designed to be used by humans, but they do not provide suitable interfaces for software programs. That is why a growing interest has arisen in so-called web automation applications that are widely used for different purposes such as B2B integration, automated testing of web applications or technology and business watch. Previous proposals assume models for generating and reproducing navigation sequences that are not able to correctly deal with new websites using technologies such as AJAX: on one hand existing systems only allow recording simple navigation actions and, on the other hand, they are unable to detect the end of the effects caused by an user action. In this paper, we propose a set of new techniques to record and execute web navigation sequences able to deal with all the complexity existing in AJAX-based web sites. We also present an exhaustive evaluation of the proposed techniques that shows very promising results.