QW2001 Paper 7V2 Dr. Edward Miller (eValid, Inc.) A Universal Client-Side WebSite Test Engine

Key Points

• Testing WebSites from the Browser has many intrinsic advantages in terms of reality, accessibility, and flexibility.
• The eValid WebSite test engine addresses a wide range of needs for WebSite testing, including functional validation and verification, site timing and page tuning, and complex load imposition.
• This talk describes the architecture, interfaces, and structure of the eValid engine, and provides a number of examples of its operation.

About the Author

Dr. Edward Miller is President of Software Research, Inc., San Francisco, California, where he has been involved with software test tools development and software engineering quality questions. Dr. Miller has worked in the software quality management field for 25 years in a variety of capacities, and has been involved in the development of families of automated software and analysis support tools.

He was chairman of the 1985 1st International Conference on Computer Workstations, and has participated in IEEE conference organizing activities for many years. Miller is the author of Software Testing and Validation Techniques, an IEEE Computer Society Press tutorial. Dr. Miller received his Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering) degree from the University of Maryland, an M.S. (Applied Mathematics) degree from the University of Colorado, and a BSEE from Iowa State University.