Air Testerに就て
岩淵 長平 · JAPANES JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION · 1934
While web services become more and more popular nowadays, the security issues and the stability of the web services have been taken more seriously. Since web services can be modified often, new bugs might be created in the changes and hence causing some new security problems. To avoid the issue stated above, the common way is to use regression testing to ensure that stable features have not been broken by the changes. However, conventional regression testing can be ineffective in addressing the problems, since the technique mostly depends on simulating user input and checking the output data shown on the web pages. Lots of useful information such as browser sessions, cookies, or http post data which could not be outputted on the pages could not be verified. Therefore if there is an error occurs below the “surface”, it is likely to be ignored. To solve the problem, we develop a regression testing tool called “AIR Tester” for web applications. Not only it analyzes the source files of the web applications automatically, but it is able to access all information in the web application through “program instrumentation”. The goal of this tool is to increase the power of test regression so that hidden errors can be revealed.