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A Three-Tiered Testing Strategy for Cookies
April 09-April 11
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICST.2008.182008 International Conference on Soft ...
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Cookies, the HTTP state management mechanism, are the backbone of many web applications. Despite a high adoption rate, cookies have remained virtually unexplored by the academic community. This paper presents an EBNF grammatical definition and a three-tiered testing strategy for cookies. The testing strategy builds upon anti-random and grammar-based methodologies examining cookies from three perspectives: cookies collections, individual cookie transformations and application-specific test-case generation. The collection of cookies maintained within a user-agent are explored in light of the anti-random test-suite reduction techniques and the grammatical definition of a cookie, culminating in the definition of a number of seeding test-vectors providing the basis for a scalable test-suite. A number of distinct grammatically correct cookie transformations are presented, providing further scalability to the proposed testing strategy. Finally a discussion of application-specific cookie transformations is presented, with focus upon the security and reliability concerns of modern web applications.
Index Terms:
Cookies, Web Technologies, Web Application Testing
Citation:
Andrew Tappenden, James Miller, "A Three-Tiered Testing Strategy for Cookies," icst, pp.131-140, 2008 International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation, 2008
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