Server Interface Descriptions for Automated Testing of JavaScript Web Applications

Casper Svenning Jensen; Anders Møller; Zhendong Su

doi:10.1145/2491411.2491421

Server Interface Descriptions for Automated Testing of JavaScript Web Applications

Casper Svenning Jensen, Anders Møller, Zhendong Su

Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

Automated testing of JavaScript web applications is complicated by the communication with servers. Specifically, it is difficult to test the JavaScript code in isolation from the server code and database contents. We present a practical solution to this problem. First, we demonstrate that formal server interface descriptions are useful in automated testing of JavaScript web applications for separating the concerns of the client and the server. Second, to support the construction of server interface descriptions for existing applications, we introduce an effective inference technique that learns communication patterns from sample data.

By incorporating interface descriptions into the testing tool Artemis, our experimental results show that we increase the level of automation for high-coverage testing on a collection of JavaScript web applications that exchange JSON data between the clients and servers. Moreover, we demonstrate that the inference technique can quickly and accurately learn useful server interface descriptio

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2013 9th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2013
Editors	Bertrand Meyer, Luciano Baresi, Mira Mezini
Number of pages	11
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	2013
Pages	510-520
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-2237-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2491411.2491421
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	9th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) - Duration: 18 Aug 2013 → 26 Aug 2013

Conference

Conference	9th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE)
Period	18/08/2013 → 26/08/2013

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Jensen, CS , Møller, A & Su, Z 2013, Server Interface Descriptions for Automated Testing of JavaScript Web Applications. in B Meyer, L Baresi & M Mezini (eds), Proceedings of the 2013 9th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2013 . Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 510-520 , 9th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), 18/08/2013. https://doi.org/10.1145/2491411.2491421

Server Interface Descriptions for Automated Testing of JavaScript Web Applications. / Jensen, Casper Svenning ; Møller, Anders; Su, Zhendong.
Proceedings of the 2013 9th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2013 . ed. / Bertrand Meyer; Luciano Baresi; Mira Mezini . Association for Computing Machinery, 2013. p. 510-520 .

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