Semantics-based Automated Web Testing

@inproceedings{Guo2015SemanticsbasedAW,
  title={Semantics-based Automated Web Testing},
  author={Hai-Feng Guo and Qing Ouyang and Harvey P. Siy},
  booktitle={International Workshop on Automated Specification and Verification of Web Sites},
  year={2015}
}
We present TAO, a software testing tool performing automated test and oracle generation based on a semantic approach. TAO entangles grammar-based test generation with automated semantics evaluation using a denotational semantics framework. We show how TAO can be incorporated with the Selenium automation tool for automated web testing, and how TAO can be further extended to support automated delta debugging, where a failing web test script can be systematically reduced based on grammar-directed… 
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