Scalability issues with using FSMWeb to test web applications

Andrews, Anneliese; Offutt, Jeff; Dyreson, Curtis E.; Mallery, Christopher J.; Jerath, Kshamta; Alexander, Robert R.

doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2009.06.002

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“…Focus Areas and limitations are shown in given table 8. These identified limitations are complex model [3] [16] [26], annotation cost [6], accuracy [6], lack in tool maturity [10], State space explosion [13], scalability issues [16], error prone [28], time consuming [32], [36], [42], multi components with the same degree [34], performance issues [35], lack of automation [41], quality assurance [41] etc. Focus areas and limitations are shown in given Table 8.…”

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“…3) Heterogeneity; that these applications are developed in different programming language (HTML, JavaScript, CSS) for client side and (RUBY, PHP, Java) for server side [13]. 4) Multiple user access.…”

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“…In 2003, Business Internet Group San Francisco (BIG-SF) [2] conducted a study in which they stated that 70% of web applications contain defects. Due to cross platform dynamic and multi lingual nature of web applications rigorous testing techniques are needed which are cost effective and efficient [13]. As most of web applications are critical to business operations so they should be tested thoroughly and frequently to prevent from defects, but it is difficult to perform testing with traditional testing techniques as these techniques are costly and time consuming [14], [15].…”

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Model Based Testing for Web Applications: A Literature Survey Presented

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Abstract:The World Wide Web has a great impact in the world of computing. Testing of web applications is becoming more challenging task with the tremendous growth, distributed nature, dynamic nature and heterogeneity of web applications. With the growing complexity and usage of web applications, there is a need of rigorous testing techniques for producing reliable applications. Model-based testing (MBT) is a promising paradigm for generating test cases from models of the system under test (SUT). Different techniques (based on model based testing) have been presented in the literature. The focus of this study is to present a survey of model based testing techniques with specific reference to web applications. Existing literature has been surveyed using a systematic literature review (SLR) approach. Applicability of MBT for web applications have been studied, comparison of existing approaches has been presented in the study, finally strengths and limitations of existing approaches have been highlighted.

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Model Based Testing for Web Applications: A Literature Survey Presented

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“…Andrews et al [16,17] modeled web applications as hierarchical finite state machines, and generated tests as paths through the FSMs. This approach was pure system level and focused on behavioral aspects of web applications, as opposed to the structural aspects the atomic section model represents.…”

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An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Atomic Section Model

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2014

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Abstract. Society increasingly depends on web applications for business, work, and pleasure. As the use of web applications continues to increase, the number of failures, some minor and some major, continues to grow. A significant problem is that we still have relatively weak abilities to test web applications, and often rely on informal, ad-hoc, and ineffective techniques. A key driver to this problem is that web applications use novel technologies, including control structures that are not available in traditional software, and new state handling techniques, including new variable scopes. Traditional testing techniques do not adequately model or test these novel technologies. The atomic section model (ASM), which was introduced in a previous paper, models these novel technologies to support design, analysis, and testing. This paper presents an empirical study to evaluate the effectiveness of the ASM to design tests. The model was implemented into a tool, WASP, which extracts the ASM from the implementation and supports various test criteria. We studied ten web applications, totaling 156 components and 11,829 lines of code. Using WASP, we generated 207 tests, which revealed 31 faults. Seventeen of those faults exposed internal information about the application and server.

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“…Further, it also mean that one would need to look deeper into the workload of actual web applications. This process is in its early phases, but there are several examples of interesting work [27,5]. Two concurrent studies [30,31] explicitly compare the JavaScript execution behavior of web applications as compared to existing JavaScript benchmark suites.…”

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