Patent ID: 8464220

Claim:
A web application test method that performs a test of a web application in a web server, the method comprising: performing processing for POST data received from a client and, based on the processing result, generating a document to be transmitted to the client, the document including at least one input area for a user; and determining input area setting data to be set in the input area of the document, and embedding a test program for automatically transmitting the POST data from the client to the web server in the document to allow the client to execute the test program when the test of a web application is performed, wherein the test program includes a POST number which is a number of the POST data, the determining and embedding determines the input area setting data based on the POST number and updates the POST number, the test program executed on the client inputs the input area setting data in the input area, the determining and embedding determines the input area setting data by referring to a test data storage section included in the web server, and when a number of the at least one input area is N and the POST number ranges from 0 to M, the test data storage section includes (M+1)×N input area setting data.