Spidering a website from a browser using a document object model
AssigneeSoftware Research, Inc.
InventorEdward F. Miller
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Abstract
A method and system is provided for testing and analyzing websites via a test-enabled web browser. In the representative embodiment a user controls a test-enabled web browser via a set of pull-down menus, thereby choosing between alternative testing and analysis functional capabilities, selecting files in which to store recordings (scripts), choosing files into which to place test results and messages, and setting various parameters that affect how the testing and analysis functions are performed. The general result of systematic use of the test-enabled browser on websites is improved content quality, demonstrated website server behavior for deep tests, quicker delivery by the website server, and better serviceability for e-business.
Claims5
A method for testing a website residing on a network using a network browser, said method comprising:
- rendering, via the network browser, a web page having a Document Object Model (DOM) associated herewith, the web page being part of the website;
- examining the DOM of the rendered web page to identify a plurality of linked-to web pages;
- subsequently rendering, via the network browser, one or more of the linked-to web pages;
- examining the DOM of each of the one or more rendered linked-to web pages to discover link relationships;
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- presenting an illustration that indicates the web page and the one or more linked-to web pages and indicates link relationships with the one or more of the linked-to web pages,
- wherein the testing of the website by the method is performed by and internal to the network browser.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.