As our awareness of the complexities inherent in web applications grows, we find an increasing need for more sophisticated ways to test them. Many web application faults are a result of how web software components interact; sometimes client-server and sometimes server-server. This paper presents a novel solution to the problem of integration testing of web applications by using mutation analysis. New mutation operators are defined, a tool (webMuJava) that implements these operators is presented, and results from a case study applying the tool to test a small web application are presented. The results show that mutation analysis can help create tests that are effective at finding web application faults, as well as indicating several directions for improvement.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.