Title
Addressing web locator fragility: a case for browser extensions.
Abstract
Web locators uniquely identify elements on the Web Content. They are heavily used in different scenarios, from Web harvesting to Web testing and browser extensions. Locators' Achilles heel is their fragility upon Website upgrades. This work tackles locator fragility in the context of browser extensions. We introduce regenerative locator, i.e. traditional structure-based locators which are supplemented with contingency data from the target node. The aim: keeping browser extensions up and running for as long as possible. Eight case studies are analysed by considering real Website upgrades taken from Wayback Machine. Figures indicate a 70% success in regenerating broken locators without interrupting extension functioning.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
EICS
World Wide Web,Computer science,Robustness (computer science),Human–computer interaction,Fragility,Web testing,Client-side scripting,Contingency
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-5083-9
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
10
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Iñigo Aldalur151.25
Oscar Díaz241562.28