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A Method for Testing Web Applications by Using Black-box Tests based on User Screens and Web Interface Test Coverage  

Lim, Jeung-Hee (이화여자대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
Lee, Si-Hyun (이화여자대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
Jang, Jin-A (이화여자대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
Choi, Byoung-Ju (이화여자대학교 컴퓨터정보통신공학과)
Hwang, Sang-Cheol (삼성 SDS Engineering Methodology Team)
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Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications / v.36, no.9, 2009 , pp. 706-717 More about this Journal
Abstract
A web application is implemented by reusing the library provided by framework and has hierarchical architecture. Also, to deal with the user request from a screen, the web application has an execution flow, called 'Business Logic', which starts with a screen, executes its composed component and comes back to the screen via database. To test web application effectively, it should reflect the characteristics of web application. In this paper we propose to test web applications via user screens with the black-box testing approach and verify its source codes with the web interface white-box test coverage that covers all the business logics of the test target and their corresponding interfaces. We analyze the proposing testing method through its tool: Testopiacov.
Keywords
Web Application Testing; Web Business logic; Web Interface; Black-box Test; White-box Test;
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