Testing Forms in Web Applications Automatically

Forms enhance both the dynamic and interactive abilities of Web applications and the system complexity. And it is especially important to test forms completely and thoroughly. Therefore, this paper discusses how to carry out the form testing by different methods in the related testing phases. Namely, at first, automatically abstracting forms in the Web pages by parsing the HTML documents; then, ohtai ning the testing data with a certain strategies, such as by requirement specifications, by mining users＇ hefore input informarion or by recording meehanism; and next executing the testing actions automatically due to the well formed test cases; finally, a case study is given to illustrate the convenient and effective of these methods.

Testing forms in web applications automatically

Forms enhance both the dynamic and interactive abilities of Web applications and the system complexity. And it is especially important to test forms completely and thoroughly. Therefore, this paper discusses how to carry out the form testing by different methods in the related testing phases. Namely, at first, automatically abstracting forms in the Web pages by parsing the HTML documents; then, obtaining the testing data with a certain strategies, such as by requirement specifications, by mining users' before input information or by recording mechanism; and next executing the testing actions automatically due to the well-formed test cases; finally, a case study is given to illustrate the convenient and effective of these methods. Foundation item: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (60425206, 90412003, 60503033), the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program 2002CB312000), Opening Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering in Wuhan University, High Technology Research Project of Jiangsu Province (BG2005032) Biography: XU Lei (1978-), female, Ph. D., Lecturer, research direction: Web application analysis and testing.