Abstract
One of the current core requirements of web applications is the continuity of the service, because loss in availability can
lead to severe economic losses. This is the main reason behind the growing interest in web application testing that offers
to researchers several challenges, due to the peculiar nature of these applications. Several classical testing techniques
have been extended to deal with web testing. In this paper we propose to extend to web application testing a recent search-based
approach that optimizes the generation of the whole test suite. This approach has several advantages over common approaches
that optimize the generation of a single test case at a time. We show the technological challenges we have had to face, the
architecture of the tool WETT we have developed, and some preliminary results of the experiments.
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