TECHNIQUE FOR EFFICIENT PARTIAL CRAWLING OF INTERACTIVE CLIENT-SERVER APPLICATIONS IN A PARALLEL, DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENT

摘要

An electronic device includes a memory including a crawling application and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to execute the crawling application, which causes the processor to receive a job, crawl the interactive client-server application based on the initialization information until a boundary condition is reached, and report the results of crawling. The job contains initialization information indicating a portion of an interactive client-server application to be crawled. Crawling it includes programmatically determining possible actions available on a first state of the interactive client-server application, recording the first state, selecting an action, recording the actions not taken, taking the action, reaching a second state, recording the second state, and recording the action taken as a transition between the first state and the second state. Reporting the results of the interactive client-server application includes reporting the first state, second state, the transition, and actions not taken.