Chapter Three

Three Open Problems in the Context of E2E Web Testing and a Vision: NEONATE

Filippo Ricca*; Maurizio Leotta*; Andrea Stocco    * DIBRIS, Università di Genova, Genova, Italy University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Abstract

Web applications are critical assets of our society and thus assuring their quality is of undeniable importance. Despite the advances in software testing, the ever-increasing technological complexity of these applications makes it difficult to prevent errors.

In this work, we provide a thorough description of the three open problems hindering web test automation: fragility problem, strong coupling and low cohesion problem, and incompleteness problem. We conjecture that a major breakthrough in ...

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