From User Stories to End-to-end Web Testing

In agile development of web applications, user stories are a common aid to develop the software. In this paper, we exploit this for deriving test cases from these user stories, to check and ensure the functioning of the application. Our step-by-step method is based on a literature review and interviews with professional testers. Besides steps for transforming user stories into test cases, the method also includes guidelines to select user stories beforehand, and guidelines on how to implement automatically executable test cases, afterwards. We demonstrate the method’s applicability with case studies on three web applications from different application domains.