A Practical Web Testing Model for Web Application Testing

As an important method to ensure the quality of Web applications, Web testing attracts more and more attentions in the academic community and industrial world. Testing Web applications raises new problems and faces very high challenges. This work proposes a Web testing model for Web application testing. It starts from constructing the PFD (Page Flow Diagram) of the Web application. An algorithm is then designed to derive a PTT (Page Test Tree) from the PFD. From the PTT, a test translator is employed to extract the path expression, in order to generate all the test paths and then translates them into a test specification in XML syntax, which is the input of test engine. The test engine generates test cases and then executes them, and finally produces test report. The model presented is an important supplement to the existing Web application testing.