Integrating customized test requirements with traditional requirements in web application testing

  • Authors:

  • Sreedevi Sampath;Sara Sprenkle;Emily Gibson;Lori Pollock

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Delaware, Newark, DE;University of Delaware, Newark, DE;University of Delaware, Newark, DE;University of Delaware, Newark, DE

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2006 workshop on Testing, analysis, and verification of web services and applications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Existing test suite reduction techniques employed for testing web applications have either used traditional program coverage-based requirements or usage-based requirements. In this paper, we explore three different strategies to integrate the use of program coverage-based requirements and usage-based requirements in relation to test suite reduction for web applications. We investigate the use of usage-based test requirements for comparison of test suites that have been reduced based on program coverage-based test requirements. We examine the effectiveness of a test suite reduction process based on a combination of both usage-based and program coverage-based requirements. Finally, we modify a popular test suite reduction algorithm to replace part of its test selection process with selection based on usage-based test requirements. Our case study suggests that integrating program coverage-based and usage-based test requirements has a positive impact on the effectiveness of the resulting test suites.