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Welcome to WEBART™
WEBART™ is a nuts-and-bolts test-automation
tool developed by OCLC for testing World Wide Web. internet, and intranet
applications and content. It provides a direct, cost-effective solution
for creating, executing, and evaluating automated tests that verify your
application and web site.
WebART™ provides a complete solution for large scale functional, regression,
and performance testing of commercial WWW applications. During a test,
it replaces the browser and plays a script to the Webserver. The results
from the host are recorded for later viewing and comparing with baselines
Integrated Solution
WEBART™ is a comprehensive solution to your web-testing needs, addressing
all major aspects of validating your applications, including:
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Link Validation
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Load and Performance Testing
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Script Capture/Replay
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Automated comparator with extensible masking
- Full-featured Scripting Language
Easy to Use
WEBART™ is easy to use and requires no special training. Everyone involved
in the creation of a web site, including content specialists, test engineers,
programmers, and web masters will be able to immediately begin using WEBART™
to validate links, record scripts, and execute tests. All functions are
accessed through a World-Wide-Web browser, so if you can use the web, you
can use WEBART™.
Low Start-up Costs
Despite the many features provided by WEBART™, the cost is surprisingly
low. WEBART™ can be licensed for unlimited use by a single user for less
than $1,000*, and discounts are available for multiple licenses. A
single user license does not limit the number of users that can be simulated
in a load test.
Link Checking
A typical web site consists of many documents and graphics that contain
hypertext links to one another and to documents at other sites. As the
number of documents increases, it becomes more and more difficult to know
which links to change when you move a document or reorganize a section
of the web. This leads over time to the creation of bad links, i.e., links
that no longer point to an existing document.
Bad links are the single most common defect at web sites today. When
users attempt to follow one of these links, they receive an error message.
This reflects poorly on your site and may suggest that you either don't
care about quality or are incapable of achieving it. This is not a message
you want to send to either existing or prospective customers.
WEBART™ provides you with the capability to quickly check every hypertext
link in your web to make sure that each link can be successfully followed.
WEBART™ identifies each bad link and the document in which it occurs so
that the problem can be quickly rectified.
Load Testing
Sooner or later, performance becomes an issue with all web sites.
Some of the issues may include the following:
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Transaction rate
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Number of simultaneous users
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Response time
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Ttime between failures
Script Capture and Replay
In addition to static HTML documents and graphics, web sites often
contain active elements with which users interact in a more complex manner.
These elements typically consist of HTML forms that provide formatted input
for user requests and then invoke processing at the server to satisfy these
requests.
The types of services provided over the web in this manner can be as
simple as e-mailing the formatted request to internal staff for manual
processing or as complex as a real-time interaction with an on-line management
information, transaction processing, or process control system.
Capture/Replay provides a simple mechanism to create automated tests
to exercise the active elements of your web site by allowing you to capture
interactions with your server so that you can subsequently replay them
to ensure that both the web elements and associated back-end processes
are functioning as intended.
Regression Testing
One of the main forces driving the explosion of the World Wide Web
is the great speed with which fairly sophisticated sites can be put together.
This rapidity of development also extends to making enhancements after
the site goes on-line. Most web sites are undergoing constant change
at a consistently high rate.
Web sites share, with all other software systems, the propensity for
exhibiting unexpected and usually undesirable side effects when changed.
The more frequent the changes, the more likely that something that was
working previously will get broken by an "unrelated" enhancement.
Regression Testing identifies previously working functions of your web
site that are either broken or behave differently after a given set of
changes. With WEBART™ you create a baseline of the correct behavior of
your web site, and then compare the site's behavior to the baseline after
making changes. Any differences, other than trivial ones, represent unexpected
side effects and can be investigated and resolved.
Specifications
| Platforms: |
Linux
WINDOWS 95,98,NT,2000
SUNOS/SOLARIS
AIX |
| Disk Space: |
28 megabytes free |
| Browsers: |
I.E. 4.0+
Netscape 3.0+ |
Pricing
| Licences: |
1 - 10 |
11 - 20 |
21 - 30 |
Site License |
| Purchase Price |
$825* each |
$625* each |
$425* each |
$20,000* |
| Annual Maintenance |
$120* each |
$100* each |
$80* each |
$3,000* |
*Pricing is stated in U.S. dollars and applies to purchasers located in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa only. Those located elsewhere should contact their OCLC Regional Service provider for details.
Contact
Tip House (tip_house@oclc.org)
Direct line: 1-614-761-5139
Toll Free: 1-800-848-5878
Fax: 1-614-764-6096
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
6565 Frantz Road
Dublin, Ohio 43017-3395
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