Composing a framework to automate testing of operational web-based software

An Agent-Based Framework for Automated Testing of Web-Based Systems

“…In this case we used an open source product named soapUI 6 . This tool takes a WSDL file as input and generates a test script for testing the web service described by that WSDL file.…”

“…In [6] a framework has been presented to automate testing of operational web-based systems. In this framework, user sessions are extracted from the web server logs during real user interactions.…”

“…First, all of them are somehow limited both in terms of the test strategy they use (white-box, black-box, gray-box) and the types of tests they are designed for. For instance, [6] addresses only white-box strategy and session-based test case generation, while [13] is addresses only security tests. The second point is that, despite their differences, the way they finally execute a test is almost similar.…”

Automated replay and failure detection for web applications

“…In [25], we presented an initial framework. In this section, we focus on our improvements to test case collection, test suite generation, test suite replay, and fault detection.…”

“…In a previous paper [25], we reported on our use of existing tools and the development of some simple scripts to automate the entire process from gathering user sessions through the identification of a reduced test suite and replay of that test suite for coverage analysis and fault detection. In this paper, we describe our work on replay and oracle comparators, which focuses on addressing the challenges posed by web applications' observability and controllability, derived from our experiences in experimentation with the prototype.…”