A Platform Independent Testing Tool for Automated Testing of Web Applications

Increasing complexity of web applications and their dependency on numerous web technologies has made the process of testing web applications tedious, time-consuming and expensive. Many approaches have been proposed to automate the testing of web applications, where most of the approaches are confined to perform a specific type of testing. This proposal proposes an automated testing tool that detects the web technology used to implement the interface. Later it automatically selects an appropriate tool to test the web application based on the technology used, and the type of test to be performed, generates an automated test script, and executes it on the web application. Our approach is based on the concepts of machine learning where the developed tool is capable of automatically recognizing different technologies used by the web application and making intelligent decisions based on the given application. Unlike other existing approaches, this approach uses platform independent test cases and transforms them into platform specific tests suitable for the selected tool. In this way our approach supports the dynamic testing of any web application in a platform independent manner.