GENERIC METHOD FOR AUTOMATED SOFTWARE TESTING

An application comprising pages and navigations between the pages is parsed into a DOM for each page. A determination is made whether each page creates, updates or deletes an object of the application based on the DOM for the page. If the page does not create, update or delete, the DOM for the page is traversed to collect navigation links to other pages. If the page does create, update or delete, the DOM for the page is traversed to collect, input nodes, buttons for creating, updating or deleting and navigation links to other pages. Each page of the application is visited and tested. A navigation test of each of the collected links of the page is performed with one forward and one backward navigation of the link. A function test of each collected button of the page is performed by using the button and evaluating results based on specified rules.