Test Case Reduction Approach in User Session Based Testing for Web Application

Abstract

Web application testing is crucial to provide reliable services for the fast growing demand on web application. Testing, designing and generating test cases are challenging task because web application is complex and changeable. Among test case generation, user session based test case generation has been researched to generate test cases by the use of user session data. In user-session based testing, a tester captures user accesses during deployment to create user session, which are then replayed as test cases. This paper describes the test case reduction approach for analyzing, and replaying the large number of test cases generated from user session data. Entropy gain theory is used to generate user session based test cases. Moreover, this system combines the user session data with the internal structure analysis of the application for ensuring the reliability of web application. The rate of fault detection of the test suite is measured to evaluate the effectiveness of proposed system.