✎ projects:webapps [Pollock Lab: Private Research Space]

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====== Web Application Testing ======

The increased availability and continuous use of the web for daily operations by businesses, consumers, and government has popularized e-commerce and created a great demand for reliable web applications. One promising approach to testing the functionality of web applications leverages user session data collected by web servers. Some of the goals of this research are

  * To perform scalable test suite reduction of user sessions and generate reduced suites that are efficient in terms of program coverage and fault detection ability.
  * To perform dynamic analysis of user sessions to understand the usage and dynamic behavior of web applications and to motivate the reduction techniques developed.
  * To develop a customizable, automated framework for scalable testing of web applications. Our objectives are that the tool provides accurate testing of the application and adapts to an evolving test suite and the application's changing operational profiles. 

===== Select Publications =====

  * Sreedevi Sampath, Sara Sprenkle, Emily Gibson, and Lori Pollock. "Web Application Testing with Customized Test Requirements--An Experimental Comparison Study." International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE '06). November 2006.

  * Sara Sprenkle, Emily Gibson, Sreedevi Sampath, and Lori Pollock. "Automated Replay and Failure Detection for Web Applications." International Conference of Automated Software Engineering, IEEE/ACM, pp. 253--262. November 2005. 

  * Sreedevi Sampath, Valentin Mihaylov, Amie Souter, and Lori Pollock. "A Scalable Approach to User-session based Testing of Web Applications through Concept Analysis." International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), IEEE, pp. 132--141. September 2004.

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===== Contributors =====
  * **Faculty**: [[http://www.cis.udel.edu/~pollock|Lori Pollock]]
  * **Ph.D. Students**: [[http://www.cis.udel.edu/~sprenkle|Sara Sprenkle]] and [[http://www.cis.udel.edu/~gibson|Emily Gibson Hill]]
  * **Collaborators**: [[http://userpages.umbc.edu/~sampath/|Dr. Sreedevi Sampath]] (UMBC) and Dr. Amie Souter (Lucent) 
  * **Past Undergraduate Students**: Stacey Ecott (Tufts University), Holly Esquivel (University of Nebraska-Kearney), Barbara Hazelwood (Xavier University), Valentin Mihaylov (Drexel University), Frank Zappaterrini