A Novel Web Test Runner Based on Pushdown Automation
Jia Xiao, Jin Mao · 2006
With the wide spread of Web-based application systems,there have been rising demands on the quality of such systems.Accordingly,valid testing approach to guarantee the quality of Web-based application systems has be- come a subject of intense research,in which area,automated test runner to support automatic testing execution is cur- rently a hotspot and a tough problem.Proposed and analyzed in this paper is a novel Web test runner based on pushdown automation,and a prototype of the Web test runner is implemented.The Web test runner is able to execute the testing cases automatically and present the testing reports,its performance is studied and its validity is proved via practical testing routines for Web applications.