Automating Web Tasks by Simulating Browser Behaviors

Abstract

In most scenarios, people rely on Web browsers to access online Web-based systems. To make automation of Web tasks useful, integration is usually required, but, the current Web infrastructure imposes huge limitations on this. In this research, the goal is to develop a framework that makes automation involving heterogeneous Web-based systems easier. With the proposed framework, users simply provide a set of configuration files and our tool will "execute" Web pages according to the specified configurations. In such a way, integrating Web-based systems becomes much easier.