Facilitating Automated Validation of a Web Application

One or more computer-readable storage media encoding software that is operable when executed to:

• access one or more document object model (DOM) representations of one or more pages of a Web application that comprises one or more instances of a web-application artifact, each of the DOM representations comprising a plurality of DOM elements that each have a value for each of one or more attributes;
• for each of one or more of the instances, identify a first set of one or more of the DOM elements in one of the DOM representations of one of the pages that collectively correspond to the instance;
• identify a second set of one or more particular ones of the values of one or more particular ones of the attributes of one or more particular ones of the DOM elements in the first sets;
• and
• map the second set to the web-application artifact to provide a DOM definition of the web-application artifact.