Abstract

Currently, web-based applications have a huge role in providing online services across the world in various sectors such as social media, e-commerce, e-education, e-health, etc., due to the rapid growth, dynamic nature and heterogeneity of web-based applications, Rigorous testing techniques are required to produce reliable web-based applications. Therefore, the process of testing web-based applications is a very important issue. Software testing is an important and essential stage in software development to improve its quality and reliability. There are many methods presented in the literature for creating test cases. Besides, you can take the test manually or automatically using different test tools. Therefore, this paper focuses on reviewing the literature and reviewing many different existing methods performed on Model Based Testing (MBT) for web-based applications. In addition, this research paper offers a comparative evaluation based on testing approaches for web-based applications that used UML diagrams in order to provide guidance for researchers to select an appropriate MBT approach and provide a basis for relevant future research.

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