Challenges of End-to-End Testing with Selenium WebDriver and How to Face Them: A Survey
Modern web applications are complex and used for tasks of primary importance, so their quality must be guaranteed at the highest levels. For this reason, testing techniques (e.g., end-to-end) are required to validate the overall behavior of web applications. One of the most popular tools for testing web applications is Selenium WebDriver. Selenium WebDriver automates the browser to mimic real user actions on the web. While Selenium has made testing easier for many teams worldwide, it still has its share of challenges. To better understand the challenges and the corresponding solutions adopted we decided to undertake a personal opinion survey from the industry (in total with 78 highly skilled participants), analyzing the most relevant challenges in end-to-end testing, with a focus on the Selenium ecosystem. The results allow understanding which challenges are considered more relevant by professionals in their daily practice and which are the techniques, approaches, and tools they adopt to face them. Therefore, this study is useful to (1) practitioners interested in understanding how to solve the problems they face every day and (2) researchers interested in proposing innovative solutions to problems having a solid industrial impact.
Wed 19 AprDisplayed time zone: Dublin change
14:00 - 15:40 | Session 14: Web TestingJournal-First Papers / Industry / Research Papers at Grand canal Chair(s): Thomas Laurent JSPS@National Institute of Informatics, Japan | ||
14:00 20mTalk | Challenges of End-to-End Testing with Selenium WebDriver and How to Face Them: A Survey Industry Maurizio Leotta DIBRIS, University of Genova, Italy, Boni Garcia Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Filippo Ricca Università di Genova, Jim Whitehead University of California, Santa Cruz | ||
14:20 20mTalk | E2E-Loader: A Framework to Support Performance Testing of Web Applications Industry Ermanno Battista Fervento srl, Sergio Di Martino Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Sergio Di Meglio Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Fabio Scippacercola Fervento srl, Luigi Libero Lucio Starace Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II | ||
14:40 20mTalk | Automated Web Application Testing driven by Pre-recorded Test Cases Journal-First Papers | ||
15:00 20mTalk | Robust web element identification for evolving applications by considering visual overlaps Research Papers Michel Nass Blekinge Institute of Technology, Riccardo Coppola Politecnico di Torino, Emil Alégroth Blekinge Institute of Technology, Robert Feldt Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden | ||
15:20 20mTalk | Automating Endurance Test for Flash-based Storage Devices in Samsung Electronics Industry Jinkook Kim Samsung Electronics Co., Minseok Jeon Korea University, Sejeong Jang Samsung Electronics Co., Hakjoo Oh Korea University |