An interaction-based test sequence generation approach for testing webapplications

Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 209-218

  Wang, Wenhua ^a   Sampath, Sreedevi ^b   Lei, Yu ^a   Kacker, Raghu ^c  

^a University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

^b Baltimore County   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDIES; CODE COVERAGE; DYNAMIC PAGES; PAIRWISE INTERACTIONS; TEST COVERAGE; TEST SEQUENCES; WEB APPLICATIONS;

APPLICATIONS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

TESTING;

EID: 58449117463     PISSN: 15302059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HASE.2008.53     Document Type: Conference Paper

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