Business Process-Based Testing of Web Applications

Software testing claims a big amount of software development costs as a rule. Particularly, manually operated software tests are on the critical path during realising a software product since the execution of these tests is very time-consuming. Furthermore, it is cumbersome for domain experts to participate in the development process since they have a low level of software engineering knowledge. However, their participation is important and a crucial factor to success since they have the domain expertise.

In this paper we propose an approach that enables domain experts to generate test cases alongside business processes. Our contribution targets a holistic approach that supports the modelling of the graphical user interface (GUI) for web-based information systems, the generation of test cases from modelled business processes, the automated execution of the generated test cases, and the reporting of test results, which includes a backtracking of the results to the respective elements within the workflows of the business process.