Test case generation for semantic-based user input validation of web applications. (2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hanna, Samer; Munro, Malcolm
• Is Part Of: International journal of Web engineering and technology. Volume 13:Number 3(2018)
• Page Start: 225
• Page End: 254
• Publication Date: 2018
• Subjects: user input validation -- UIV -- test case generation for web applications -- semantic-related user input validation -- automatic test case generation; World Wide Web -- Periodicals; Web site development -- Periodicals; Application software -- Development -- Periodicals; 006.7
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1476-1289

Abstract

Semantic-based user input validation of web applications is important because of the central role these applications play in our daily lives. An example of such a process is in rejecting a four-digit number as an input that represents the age of a web application user. Testing professionals must write test cases that can be used to check if a web application can handle semantically invalid inputs. Most of the current approaches for test case generation for web applications do not consider the semantics of inputs. And for approaches that do consider input semantics, test case generation is done manually. This paper defines a process that can be used to automate and in some cases, semi-automate the generation of test cases to assess semantic-based user input validation of web applications (TCSUIV). To prove the usefulness of the process in this paper, it is applied to case study web page. A prototype tool has been built also to show the applicability of this paper process for test case generation for web application.