Automated web application testing using search based software engineering

2011 26th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2011, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3-12

  Alshahwan, Nadia ^a   Harman, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automated Test data generation; SBSE; Web applications

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED TEST DATA GENERATION; BRANCH COVERAGE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; REAL WORLD WEB; SBSE; SEARCH-BASED; SEARCH-BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STATIC AND DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; WEB APPLICATION; WEB APPLICATION TESTING;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; SEARCH ENGINES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE TESTING;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84855445676     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASE.2011.6100082     Document Type: Conference Paper

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