Generating Test Scripts for Web-Based Applications

摘要

Testing process is an essential part of the software development process as it reveals faults of the system which leads to software reliability improvement. Manual software manual testing is a process which testers discover software's faults by hands. Therefore, any change on the software requires tremendous effort and time to execute test cases such as regression tests. Even though we can utilize automation testing tools to speed up the execution of test cases, experienced testers, who are equipped with automation testing knowledge, are inevitably required. Since novice testers usually consume a significant amount of time to develop test scripts, this paper aims to establish an approach to simplify test scripts generation for web-based applications using URL and XSD as inputs. Our approach elicits input elements from a web page using a provided URL and then analyzes their values using XSD to create test data using boundary value testing technique. This produces test scripts that run under Robot framework.