Performance of near-duplicate detection algorithms for Crawljax

Crawljax is a crawler, which not only finds states via regular links, but also states that are hidden by JavaScript actions. However, this leads to a gigantic number of states with many duplicates. A near-duplicate detection algorithm can be a solution to limit the number of states found by Crawljax, while crawling the most essential, unique...

End User Involvement in Exploratory Test Automation for Web Applications

The traditional way of developing websites as hypertexts, which can be navigated link by link, is progressively giving way to the AJAX approach, in which the entire hypertext can be contained in a single web page. The resulting page has the advantage of offering navigation by loading only specific parts of the page - only the changing content....

Concurrent Multi-browser Crawling of Ajax-based Web Applications

Web applications are becoming more and more the replacement of desktop applications, using Ajax as their main technology to achieve user-friendly and interactive user interfaces. The best known example is the email application GMail, other examples include Google Docs, Google Maps, Facebook, Yahoo Mail and Twitter. These technological advantages...

Automated Regression Testing of Ajax Web Applications

There is a growing trend of moving desktop applications to the Web by using AJAX to create user-friendly and interactive interfaces. Well-known examples include GMail, Hotmail, Google Wave and office applications. One common way to provide assurance about the correctness of such complex and evolving systems is through regression testing....