New technologies for the development of Web applications, such as AJAX, supportadvanced, asynchronous interactions with the server, going beyond the submit/wait-for-response paradigm.AJAX improves the responsiveness and usability of a Web application but poses new challenges to the scientific community: one of them is testing.In this work, we try to apply existing Web testing techniques (e.g., model based testing, code coverage testing, session based testing, etc.) to a small AJAX-based Web application with the purpose of understandingtheir real effectiveness. In particular, we try to answer the following questions: `Is it possible to apply existing testing techniques to AJAX-based Web applications?``; `Are they adequate to test AJAX applications?`; and, `What are the problems and limitations they have with AJAX testing?`. Our preliminary analysis suggests that these techniques, especially those based onwhite-box approaches, need to be changed or improved to be effectively used with AJAX-based Web applications.

Testing Techniques applied to AJAX Web Applications

Marchetto, Alessandro;Tonella, Paolo;Ricca, Filippo
2007-01-01

Abstract

New technologies for the development of Web applications, such as AJAX, supportadvanced, asynchronous interactions with the server, going beyond the submit/wait-for-response paradigm.AJAX improves the responsiveness and usability of a Web application but poses new challenges to the scientific community: one of them is testing.In this work, we try to apply existing Web testing techniques (e.g., model based testing, code coverage testing, session based testing, etc.) to a small AJAX-based Web application with the purpose of understandingtheir real effectiveness. In particular, we try to answer the following questions: `Is it possible to apply existing testing techniques to AJAX-based Web applications?``; `Are they adequate to test AJAX applications?`; and, `What are the problems and limitations they have with AJAX testing?`. Our preliminary analysis suggests that these techniques, especially those based onwhite-box approaches, need to be changed or improved to be effectively used with AJAX-based Web applications.
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