Automatic Ajax Application Testing

Asynchronous javascript and XML (AJAX) is a recent group of technologies used to develop dynamic Web pages. Ajax applications are wisely used nowadays and need to be tested to ensure their reliability. This paper introduces a method and an architecture for automatic AJAX application testing. We use STS automata for describing the application and for generating test cases. We perform an improved random testing using some predefined values and also test purpose based testing for verifying specific properties. The testing framework is composed of several testers which control and monitor the test execution to give a test verdict. The Google map search application is used as an example to illustrate the method.