Patent ID: 9678859
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A computer program product for detecting error states when interacting with web applications, the computer program product comprising: a non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium; and computer readable program code embodied in the computer-readable storage medium, wherein when executed by a computer the computer-readable program code is configured to: access a first web page of a plurality of web pages of a web application, determine that the first web page includes an input validation operation by statically analyzing software instructions within the first web page, and analyze the input validation operation to identify a characteristic of the input validation operation; configure an input to cause the input validation operation to effect an error state, and provide the input to the first web page, thereby effecting the error state; and identify a feature among the plurality of web pages that is: crawl the web application and provide at least one of a web application analyzer, a web application tester, and an error state detector with access to at least one of the plurality of web pages; and provide at least one different inputs to the second web page until the feature is absent from the second web page, wherein the at least one different inputs is based on the characteristic of the input validation operation.