A novel framework for validating dynamic web applications

Abstract

World Wide Web contains an abundant amount of websites which are deemed invalid as they do not adhere to the HTML standards defined under W3C. Websites which are not well-formed may cause performance degradation for some applications and poses compatibility issues with some browsers. Furthermore, it is harder to render a non well formed webpage using state of the art web browsers. Therefore, a wide spectrum of HTML document validation tools are developed to validate HTML pages. However, these tools are able to validate only static based HTML pages, which is a drawback as it is not catered for current state of the art dynamic server side generated pages. To resolve this issue, we propose a novel framework for validating dynamic web applications. In our framework, we develop set of heuristic rules considering the various languages syntax and operation for well known server side languages such as PHP, Java EE, and ASP.NET. Our proposed framework is able to robustly validate dynamic based HTML pages with high efficiency.