Web Operation Recorder and Player

  • Authors:
  • Yoshinori Aoki;Fumio Ando;Amane Nakajima

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICPADS '00 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

This paper describes mechanisms for recording and playing back Web browser operations. A recorder detects a user's operations on a Web browser and saves them as an event sequence called a scenario. A player plays back the scenario by controlling an actual Web browser. In addition, the recorder and player allow a user to add explanations to existing HTML contents by making 驴ink驴 annotations and attaching text, images, and hyperlinks on a Web page. The recorder and player not only enable a Web site owner to gather users' behavior at his or her Web site, but also make it easy to create a Web-based automatic presentation scenario, which can be played back later. The recorder and player run in a Java-enabled Web browser. Users do not have to prepare the Web contents to be recorded; they can work with ordinary Web pages.