Filippo Ricca and Paolo Tonella.
Web Testing: a Roadmap for the Empirical Research.
Abstract
The quality delivered by existing Web applications is often poor.
A consequence of this situation is a strong demand for techniques and tools
that address the problem of the Web application quality. Lots of approaches
are currently available, often coming with prototype or commercial tools
implementing them. However, no attempt has been made so far to validate their
effectiveness.
In this paper, we consider the available techniques for Web testing and we
propose a classification into three major groups. We deal with the
problem of defining the Web-specific faults. Our approach is an
empirical investigation of the reported faults, abstracted into a
fault model. Then, we evaluate the available techniques
against the fault model, in terms of the fault categories directly
addressed by them. Finally, we sketch a roadmap for the future empirical
research.
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