AutAT: Automatic Acceptance Testing of Web Applications

Abstract

Today, more and more applications are web based. As these systems are getting larger and larger, the need for testing them is increasing. XP and other agile methodologies stress the importance of test driven development and automatically testing at all levels of testing. There exists a few open source automatical testing frameworks for web applications' features. These are, however, rather poor when it comes to usability, efficiency and quality factors. This project has created a tool for automatic acceptance testing, called AutAT, which aimes at being an improvement when compared to the previous tools' testing features. The tool has been empirically tested to verify that it is better when it comes to the parameters usability, efficiency and quality. The results from this test clearly show that AutAT is superior to available state of the art open source tools for acceptance testing.