Research on automation test of web applications

Aimed at the problem of low reusability in the context of web application test script based on capture/replay.A data-driven testing framework and an automated script using XML are proposed.The transport model of requests/responses for web application is described and the external test data is defined to avoid the defect of data hardcoded.This test method is used in different test such as func-tion test,performance test,etc.A prototype tool based on the proposed approach is developed,which accepts test script in XML syntax as input,executes the test cases and validates the test results.