WebSee: A Tool for Debugging HTML Presentation Failures

Author

Mahajan, Sonal ; Halfond, William G. J.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

2015

fDate

13-17 April 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

Presentation failures in a website can negatively impact end users´ perception of the quality of the website, the services it delivers, and the branding a company is trying to achieve. Presentation failures can occur easily in modern web applications because of the highly complex and dynamic nature of the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that define a web page´s visual appearance. Debugging such failures manually is time consuming and error-prone, and existing techniques do not provide an automated debugging solution. In this paper, we present our tool, WebSee, that provides a fully automated debugging solution for presentation failures in web applications. When run on real-world web applications, WebSee was able to accurately and quickly identify faulty HTML elements.

Keywords

Web sites; hypermedia markup languages; program debugging; software fault tolerance; software tools; CSS; HTML presentation failures; JavaScript; Web page visual appearance; WebSee; Website quality; company branding; debugging tool; end users perception; faulty HTML elements identification; fully automated debugging solution; real-world Web applications; Browsers; Debugging; Fault diagnosis; HTML; Rendering (computer graphics); Visualization; Web pages;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2015 IEEE 8th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Graz

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICST.2015.7102638

Filename

7102638