Testing and Fault Diagnosis for Web Application Compatibility Based on Combinatorial Method

• Published in: Lecture notes in computer science pp. 619 - 626
• Main Authors: Xu, Lei, Xu, Baowen, Nie, Changhai
• Format: Book Chapter Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2005; Springer
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Combinatorial Method; Compatibility Testing; Computer science; control theory; systems; Computer systems and distributed systems. User interface; Exact sciences and technology; Fault Diagnosis; Software; Web Applications; Guidance; Validation; Parallel algorithm; Combinatorial method; Debugging; World wide web; Internet; Case based reasoning; Compatibility; Distributed computing; Fault diagnostic
• ISBN: 9783540297703; 3540297707
• ISSN: 0302-9743; 1611-3349
• DOI: 10.1007/11576259_67

The testing and fault diagnosis for Web application compatibility are concerned with multiple kinds of software and hardware facilities, enormous numbers of equipments’ trademarks and types, and the combination of all the situations. How to test and find faults efficiently and quickly is a difficult and important task to complete. Combined with the characters of the Web application compatibility testing and the combinatorial method, we obtained acceptable number of test cases for the compatibility testing. After executing the test cases, we analyzed the results so as to find the fault factors by the properties of combinatorial method. Then we retested with some complementary test cases based on the elementary analytic results, and made further analysis and validation with the retesting results. Thus we obtained the factors that cause the errors in a very small range, and provided a very efficient and valuable guidance for the debugging and testing of Web application compatibility.