Design and implementation of web test tool application design and measure performance

Thesis Overview

<p> </p><p>10 &nbsp; INTRODUCTION</p><p>In recent years, Web applications (WAs) have grown so quickly that they have already become crucial to the success of businesses However, since they are built on Internet and open standard technologies, WAs possess their own unique features, such as dynamic behaviors, heterogeneous representations, and novel data handling mechanisms These features provide concrete support to the success of WAs, but they bring new challenges to researchers and developers, especially in regard to testing WAs and ensuring their quality Testing approaches for non-WAs have to be extended to handle these features before they are used in WA testing This paper presents an agent-based approach to perform data-flow testing of WAs More precisely, the data-flow testing will be performed by autonomous test agents at the method level, object level, and object cluster level, from low abstraction level to high abstraction level In the process of the recommended data-flow testing, an agent-based WA testing system (WAT) will automatically generate and coordinate test agents to decompose the task of testing an entire WA into a set of subtasks that can be accomplished by test agents The test agents, rooted in the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) model, cooperate with each other to complete the testing of a WA An example is used to show the feasibility of the proposed approach</p><p>11 &nbsp; BACKGROUND OF STUDY</p><p>Kia Motors is South Korea’s second largest automobile manufacturer, having sold over 16 million cars in 2009[2]</p><p>The word Kia derives from Korean words meaning “to arise to the world from Asia”</p><p></p><p>South Korea’s oldest car company, Kia was founded on June 9, 1944 as a manufacturer of steel tubing and bicycle parts by hand “ and has operated as one of the country’s Chaebols since In 1952, Kia changed its name from Kyungsung Precision Industry,[9] and later built motorcycles (starting in 1957), trucks (1962) and cars (1974) The company opened its first integrated automotive assembly plant in 1973, the Sohari Plant Starting in 1986, in partnership with Ford, Kia produced several Mazda derived vehicles for both domestic sales in South Korea into other countries These models include the Pride (based on the Mazda 121) and Avella, which were sold in North Americand Australasiaas the Ford Festiva and Ford Aspire</p><p>In 1992, Kia Motors America was incorporated in the United States The first Kia-branded vehicles in the United States were sold from four dealerships in Portland, Oregon in February 1994 Since then, Kia expanded methodically one region at a time Dealers in 1994 sold the Sephia, and a few years later the United States line expanded with the addition of the Sportage</p><p>However, Kia’s bankruptcy in 1997, part of the Asian financial crisis, resulted in 51% of the company being acquired in 1998 by South Korean rival Hyundai Motor Company, outbidding Ford Motor Company which had owned an interest in Kia Motors since 1986[10] Subsequently, however, Hyundai has divested some of its ownership of Kia Motors,[11] and currently Hyundai Motor Company owns less than 40% of the company</p><p>In October 2006, Kia Motors America broke ground for Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia in West Point, Georgia, representing a $1 billion USD investment for the company[12] Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia opened in February, 2010 For 2009, KMA recorded its 15th consecutive year of increased US market share</p><p>12 &nbsp; STATEMENT OF PROBLEM</p><p>Owing to:</p> <br><p></p>