International Business Machines Corporation

Acoustic, L.p.

Manoj Punjabi

Lalith Kumar Maddali

Robert I Wenig

Sukhbir Singh

Damie L Brooks

Haixiao Yu

Yves Le Bras

Generating a document object model (DOM) differential is provided. In response to receiving a webpage, a snapshot is generated of a base DOM corresponding to the webpage. A DOM node change list corresponding to the base DOM is generated. A DOM node attribute change list corresponding to the base DOM is generated. The base DOM is monitored for changes. A DOM differential is generated for the base DOM based on DOM node entries in the DOM node change list and the DOM node attribute change list.

Generating a document object model (DOM) differential

Generating replay of a webpage is provided. In response to determining that a document object model (DOM) replay of the webpage is a differential DOM replay, a base DOM of the webpage, base DOM differentials of the webpage, and user interactions with the webpage are retrieved. The base DOM of the webpage is patched with the base DOM differentials of the webpage to generate a patched DOM corresponding to the webpage. The user interactions with the webpage are overlaid on the patched DOM to generate the replay of the webpage.

Patching base document object model (DOM) with DOM-differentials to generate high fidelity replay of webpage user interactions

In response to detecting a user-defined event on a client computer, a DOM snapshot of a DOM is captured. The DOM snapshot is of a DOM being used to generate an image on a display of the client computer. A hypertext markup language (HTML) request is populated with the DOM snapshot. The HTML request is a virtual request that directs a recipient to save the HTML request without returning a webpage upon receipt. The HTML request with the DOM snapshot is transmitted to an HTML server. Subsequently, a request for the DOM snapshot is transmitted from the client computer to the HTML server. The client computer receives an HTML response from the HTML server. The HTML response HTML response includes the DOM snapshot. An image is generated on a display of the client computer using the DOM snapshot from the HTML response.

DOM snapshot capture

Aspects include capturing and replaying activities conducted during a web browsing session. Activities conducted by a user via browser application at a website are received at a computer processor. The activities occur across multiple web pages and span multiple windows during a single browsing session. The activities associated with corresponding web pages, and the activities are ordered in chronological order for each of the web pages. User interface events corresponding to the ordered activities are displayed via a browser based interface. The user interface events are selectable by an end user of the browser based interface.

Browser activity replay with advanced navigation

A monitoring system captures the behavior of distributed applications and also provides a framework for augmenting functionality of the application in response to user interactions and different states of the application and network. Network events exchanged between an application and an application server are captured and the local client events on the client device are also selectively captured. The different disparate network events and client events are then combined together during a replay operation to simulate the user experience during the previous application session.

Dynamically configurable session agent

A test system uses an instrumented browser to identify events that were not successfully captured during a client web session. The identified events can be used to modify a capture system that captures the client web session. Alternatively, the test system may generate replay rules that are used by a replay system to infer the missed events while replaying of the previously captured client web session. The events can include changes to Document Object Models (DOMs) for web pages used during the web sessions. The DOMs can be used to identify significant web session events and force replay sessions into the correct states.

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