JTracer: A framework for automatic test generation for secure Web applications

Web application systems are one of the most ubiquitous software systems in use today. In contrast to traditional software systems, web application systems can evolve rapidly due to changes usage demands. Currently many tools and techniques has been developed for testing of Web applications however, the session generation data is still the more significant aspect for Web application testing. In this thesis we introduce JTracer, a framework for automatic test generation for secure Web applications. We have developed tools and techniques for automatically generating testing traces that could be used to measure and thus improve the tolerance of Web applications to sudden increases in load. Several algorithms that generate session data from logs files have been characterized showing the scenarios where they can suite better and finally, an algorithm for generating artificial session data is implemented.