Test Scenario Generation for Web Application Based on Past Test Artifacts

Abstract

SUMMARYFor the past couple of decades, the usage of the Web as a platform for deploying software products has become incredibly popular. Web applications became more prevalent, as well as more complex. Countless Web applications have already been designed, developed, tested, and deployed on the Internet. However, it is noticeable that many common functionalities are present among these vast number of applications. This paper proposes an approach based on a database containing information from previous test artifacts. The information is used to generate test scenarios for Web applications under test. We have developed a tool based on our proposed approach, with the aim of reducing the effort required from software test engineers and professionals during the test planning and creation stage of software engineering. We evaluated our approach from three viewpoints: comparison between our approach and manual generation, qualitative evaluation by professional software engineers, and comparison between our approach and two open-source tools.

Human-based Test Design versus Automated Test Generation: A Literature Review and Meta-Analysis

“…The developers write Cucumber mappings from tests generated by Skyfire, and they present the implementation and design of the former. P21: [27]: In this paper, the authors focus on Web applications and their Web pages and view a test scenario as a sequence of steps that are taken to transition from one Web page to another. They compare a tool they have created with the manually generated test from several engineers and evaluate their approach by comparing it with manual generation and two open-source tools and making a qualitative evaluation by experienced developers.…”