Title: Prioritizing User-session-based Test Cases for Web Application Testing
Speaker: Sreedevi Sampath
Department of Information Systems - UMBC
Abstract:
Web applications have become a critical part of business for many organizations. However, increased usage of web applications has not been reciprocated with corresponding increases in reliability. Unique characteristics, such as quick turnaround time, coupled with growing popularity motivate the need for efficient and effective regression test strategies for web applications.
Test case prioritization is one such regression test strategy where test cases are ordered for execution according to some criterion to meet a performance goal. While test case prioritization has been explored for traditional applications, there is a clear lack of prioritization strategies for web applications.
In this talk, I will describe several new test case prioritization strategies for web applications and present results that illustrate the effectiveness of the prioritization techniques.
Bio:
Dr. Sreedevi Sampath is an Assistant Professor in the Information Systems Department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Sreedevi earned her Ph.D. in 2006 in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of Delaware under the advisement of Dr. Lori Pollock. She received her M.S. in 2002 from the University of Delaware in Computer and Information Sciences and received her B.E. degree from Osmania University in Computer Science and Engineering in 2000. Her research interests are broadly in the areas of software testing, web applications and software maintenance. Her Ph.D. research has focused on developing cost-effective techniques for user-session-based testing of web applications. She is also interested in regression testing of web applications, test case generation for web applications, and testing for security in applications.