Context: A large part of the software produced by many companies and organizations today
are web applications. Testing web applications is vital to ensure and maintain the quality of …

Automated test case generation for web APIs is a thriving research topic, where test cases
are frequently derived from the API specification. However, this process is only partially …

Automated test generation for web forms has been a longstanding challenge, exacerbated
by the intrinsic human-centric design of forms and their complex, device-agnostic structures …

Many automatic Web testing techniques generate test cases by analyzing the GUI of the
Web applications under test, aiming to exercise sequences of actions that are similar to the …

The generation of syntactically and semantically valid input data, able to exercise
functionalities imposing constraints on the validity of the inputs, is a key challenge in …

Security Hardening is the process of configuring IT systems to ensure the security of the
systems' components and data they process or store. In many cases, so-called security …

Q-learning is an attractive option for GUI testing, allowing for sophisticated test generation
strategies that learn and exploit effective GUI interactions. However, learning …

Zusammenfassung Problemdomäne Die Standardkonfiguration von Software ist aus
verschiedenen Grunden unsicherer als möglich, z. B. weil der Softwarehersteller bei der …

Context: A large part of the software produced by many companies and organizations today
are web applications. Testing web applications is vital to ensure and maintain the quality of …

Submitted Version of: Hardening with Scapolite: a DevOps-based Approach for Improved
Authoring and Testing of Security-Configura Page 1 Submitted Submitted Version of …