Design and development of a user interface to customize web testing scenarios

Abstract

A fact that we cannot deny is, web applications testing has become a very large scale, hence the interest of developers and especially testers to find the best solutions ever in order to improve web applications testing quality. Many web testing tools provide to user the “record and replay” feature that, like any other testing process, aims to compare actual results with expected ones to ensure the application functionality. But this approach has failed functionally speaking despite its widespread in most of web testing tools. In fact, the challenge of most developers is to ensure quality by increasing the test accuracy and at the same time speeding up testing process. Facing those urgent needs, and these actual facts (record and replay approach) it became necessary to find another approach, from this came the idea to create model-based tests. Model-based testing is a new approach in web testing world and unlike record and replay technique, just a few tools relay on. Due to all its functional advantages, we have chosen to create a web testing tool that is based on this powerful technique and improve it, in a way that simplify modeling implementation in order to reduce the rate of errors. Our System will be represented in a graphical user interface that allows user to choose, in factor of his need, between an automatic test cases generation to save effort and time, or a manual selection mode, in case of a specific test case is needed.