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A Customer Test Generator for Web-Based Systems

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Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering (XP 2003)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 2675))

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Customer (or acceptance) tests enable the customer to drive the overall design of a required system. We introduce an approach to developing customer tests for web-based applications. The customer specifies such tests through sample web pages. A test may consist of a traversal through a sequence of HTML pages in the required system. This is specified as a trace, defined by following prescribed links or form-submit buttons on each of the pages of the sequence. Isis generates customer tests in Java to verify that each trace occurs in a target system.

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  1. University of Auckland, New Zealand

    Rick Mugridge, Bruce MacDonald & Partha Roop

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  1. Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Piazza D’Ami, 09123, Cagliari, Italy

    Michele Marchesi

  2. Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Center for Applied Software Engineering, Piazza Domenicani 3, 39100, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy

    Giancarlo Succi

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Mugridge, R., MacDonald, B., Roop, P. (2003). A Customer Test Generator for Web-Based Systems. In: Marchesi, M., Succi, G. (eds) Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering. XP 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2675. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44870-5_24

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