QW2002 Tutorial C1 Mr. Edward Miller (eValid, Inc.) Web Testing: A Practical Approach

Key Points

• WebSite testing imposes new constraints on testing and analysis technology.
• Very complext WebSites have extremely high "negative payoff" for failure.
• WebSite quality requires both static and dynamic testing, and dynamic testing requires 100% maintenance of session context.
• Continual monitoring of WebSite quality appears to be a requirement for a complex WebSite.

Presentation Outline

WebSite Properties, Concerns
Static Testing
Dynanmic Testing
      Functional/Verification
      Timing/Tuning
      Server Loading
      Mapping
WebSite Monitoring
Case Study
Source Material

About the Author

Dr. Edward Miller is Chairman and President of Software Research, Inc., San Francisco, California, and Chief Technical Architect for software test tools development and software engineering quality questions. Dr. Miller has worked in the software quality management field for 25 years in a variety of capacities, and has been involved in the development of families of automated software, analysis and WebSite quality analysis tools.

He was chairman of the 1985 1st International Conference on Computer Workstations, and has participated in IEEE conference organizing activities for many years. He has been Chairman of the Quality Week Conferences since 1988 and of the Quality Week Europe Conferences since 1996. He is a Member of the Board of the Center for National Software Studies, a not-for-profit organization devoted to furtherance of national software concerns, and a member of the External Advisory Board of the EE Department at Iowa State University. He is the author of Software Testing and Validation Techniques, an IEEE Computer Society Press tutorial text. Dr. Miller received his Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering) degree from the University of Maryland, an M.S. (Applied Mathematics) degree from the University of Colorado, and a BSEE from Iowa State University.