Coverage criteria and test requirement reduction for component-based web application

In order to analyze and test the component-based web application and decide when to stop the testing process, the concept of coverage criteria and test requirement reduction approach are proposed. First, four adequacy criteria are defined and subsumption relationships among them are proved. Then, a translation algorithm is presented to transfer the test model into a web application decision-to-decision graph（WADDGraph）which is used to reduce testing requirements. Finally, different sets of test requirements can be generated from WADDGraph by analyzing subsumption and equivalence relationships among edges based on different coverage criteria, and testers can select different test requirements according to different testing environments. The case study indicates that coverage criteria follow linear subsumption relationships in real web applications. Test requirements can be reduced more than 55% on average based on different coverage criteria and the size of test requirements increases with the increase in the complexity of the coverage criteria.