Web testware evolution

Filimo Ricca; Maurizio Leotta; Andrea Stocco; Diego Clerissi; Paolo Tonella

doi:10.1109/WSE.2013.6642415

Web testware evolution

Filimo Ricca, Maurizio Leotta, Andrea Stocco, Diego Clerissi, Paolo Tonella

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Abstract

Web applications evolve at a very fast rate, to accommodate new functionalities, presentation styles and interaction modes. The test artefacts developed during web testing must be evolved accordingly. Among the other causes, one critical reason why test cases need maintenance during web evolution is that the locators used to uniquely identify the page elements under test may fail or may behave incorrectly. The robustness of web page locators used in test cases is thus critical to reduce the test maintenance effort. We present an algorithm that generates robust web page locators for the elements under test and we describe the design of an empirical study that we plan to execute to validate such robust locators.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 15th IEEE International Symposium on Web Systems Evolution, WSE 2013
Pages	39-44
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/WSE.2013.6642415
State	Published - 2013
Externally published	Yes
Event	2013 15th IEEE International Symposium on Web Systems Evolution, WSE 2013 - Eindhoven, Netherlands Duration: 27 Sep 2013 → 27 Sep 2013

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Web Systems Evolution, WSE
ISSN (Print)	2160-6153
ISSN (Electronic)	2160-6161

Conference

Conference	2013 15th IEEE International Symposium on Web Systems Evolution, WSE 2013
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Eindhoven
Period	27/09/13 → 27/09/13

Keywords

Robust XPath
Test Case Evolution
Test Case Repair
Web Testing

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Ricca, F, Leotta, M, Stocco, A, Clerissi, D & Tonella, P 2013, Web testware evolution. in Proceedings - 15th IEEE International Symposium on Web Systems Evolution, WSE 2013., 6642415, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Web Systems Evolution, WSE, pp. 39-44, 2013 15th IEEE International Symposium on Web Systems Evolution, WSE 2013, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 27/09/13. https://doi.org/10.1109/WSE.2013.6642415

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