Analysis and Testing of High Volume Online Web-based Applications

This paper has been designed to analyze and test the high volume Web-based hypermedia applications for evaluating their reliability and maintainability. The World Wide Web has become global communication system for delivering information and services. In addition, Web applications becoming more extensive, larger, more interactive, and more essential to the international use of computers. The technological evolution, however, is not supported by adequate Web testing methodologies. Web testing is usually carried out without following a well-defined process and lacks suitable tool support. Since the Web applications, are highly dependable, and as a ground, researcher just now beginning to understand how to model and test Web applications. The Web provides a new means to set up software and there are a number of differences between Web application and traditional methods. Web applications are installed across a network and they can reveal unusual flows of control. This research paper deals with external testing issues related to the user-level operation and software design structure for web testing. This paper modeled the web applications into Finite State Machines (FSM) and then generates the test cases based on FSM, which will provide support to the Web developers to build such systems effectively. The results obtained from the proposed method can help to identify the failure points in Web systems. The overall goal is to build effective and reliable Websites, and it can be done by discover the best of other organizations and to integrate these practices into one's own processes.