METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING WEB-PAGE INFORMATION THROUGH WEB-BROWSER PLUGIN

• US 20100325615A1
• Filed: 06/23/2010
• Published: 12/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: MySpace Incorporated (Capital V LLC)
• Original Assignee: MySpace Incorporated (Capital V LLC)
• Inventors: Ramot, Yadid
• Application Number:
  US12/822,174
• Publication Number:
  US 20100325615A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/124
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3672 Test management

Abstract

Capturing web-page information through a web-browser plug-in includes accessing a target test website, receiving webpage data from the target test website, injecting test code into the webpage data to create a modified webpage, executing the injected test code from the modified webpage, and outputting results of the executing.

Claims

1. A system for capturing web-page information through a web-browser plug-in, comprising:

a data warehouse;

a client machine in communication with the data warehouse; and

a proxy server in communication with the client machine;

wherein the proxy server is configured to perform a method, comprising,

accessing a target test website,

receiving webpage data from the target website,

injecting test code into the webpage data to create a modified webpage, and

passing the modified webpage to the client machine; and

wherein the client machine is configured to perform a method, comprising,

executing the injected test code from the modified webpage, and

outputting results of the executing.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the data warehouse is a computer server configured to host previously gathered webpage information.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising an automation server in communication with the client machine, the automation server configured and disposed to provide automation scripts to the client machine.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the automation scripts include computer executable code that, when executed on the client machine, direct the client machine to execute a sequence of testing operations on the modified webpage.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising a target web server in communication with the proxy server, the target web server being a computer server configured and disposed to server the target test website.

6. A computer-implemented method of capturing web-page information through a web-browser plug-in, comprising:

accessing a target test website;

receiving webpage data from the target test website;

injecting test code into the webpage data to create a modified webpage;

executing the injected test code from the modified webpage; and

outputting results of the executing.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein accessing a target test website includes submitting an address or identifier for the target test website to a proxy server, and requesting the webpage data from the target test website.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

receiving a request for a blank test record; and

generating the blank test record.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the blank test record includes an address or identifier for the target website.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein accessing the target test website includes submitting the blank test record to a proxy server, and requesting the webpage data from the target test website identified through the blank test record.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein outputting the results includes populating the blank test record with the results of the executing.

12. The method of claim 6, wherein receiving webpage data from the target test website includes receiving data and content for the target test website, the data including source code which represents a webpage presenting the content.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein injecting test code includes injecting test algorithms into the source code of the webpage data.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the test algorithms include algorithms configured to perform at least one of:

measuring a computer processor unit'"'"'s load during rendering of the modified webpage;

measuring a computer memory'"'"'s load during rendering of the modified webpage;

estimating a time period for rendering a portion of content of the modified webpage based on a speed of a connection to a target web server serving the target test website;

validating the content against a set of design rules;

profiling and measure complete rendering time of the modified webpage; and

validating the source code against a set of design rules.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the test algorithms include algorithms configured to measure a computer processor unit'"'"'s load during rendering of the modified webpage, measure a computer memory'"'"'s load during rendering of the modified webpage, and validate the content against a set of design rules.

16. A computer program product for capturing web-page information through a web-browser plug-in, comprising a tangible storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising:

accessing a target test website;

receiving webpage data from the target test website;

injecting test code into the webpage data to create a modified webpage;

executing the injected test code from the modified webpage; and

outputting results of the executing.

17. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein accessing a target test website includes submitting an address or identifier for the target test website to a proxy server, and requesting the webpage data from the target test website.

18. The computer program product of claim 16, further comprising:

receiving a request for a blank test record; and

generating the blank test record;

wherein outputting the results includes populating the blank test record with the results of the executing.

19. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein the blank test record includes an address or identifier for the target website, and wherein accessing the target test website includes submitting the blank test record to a proxy server, and requesting the webpage data from the target test website identified through the blank test record.

20. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein receiving webpage data from the target test website includes receiving data and content for the target test website, the data including source code which represents a webpage presenting the content.

21. The computer program product of claim 20, wherein injecting test code includes injecting test algorithms into the source code of the webpage data.

22. The computer program product of claim 21 wherein the test algorithms include algorithms configured to perform at least one of:

measuring a computer processor unit'"'"'s load during rendering of the modified webpage;

measuring a computer memory'"'"'s load during rendering of the modified webpage;

estimating a time period for rendering a portion of content of the modified webpage based on a speed of a connection to a target web server serving the target test website;

validating the content against a set of design rules;

profiling and measure complete rendering time of the modified webpage; and

validating the source code against a set of design rules.