The future Web will be a complex interconnection of services, applications, contents and media, possibly augmented with semantic information and based on technologies that offer a rich user experience, going beyond the current hyperlink based navigation. Users will depend increasingly on the Web for crucial activities ranging from public utilities and services, to finance and business, as well as entertainment. The demand for dependable and secure Web technologies will grow accordingly.

The goal of this workshop is to investigate the testing challenges posed by the future Web. Client side technologies - such as Ajax - introduce a complex, dynamic and stateful execution model, involving asynchronous interactions with the server. Server side applications organized as services, possibly around an enterprise service bus, offer interesting opportunities for dynamic discovery, replacement and composition. Adaptivity and autonomy aim at improving the user experience both at the client and at the server side, through capabilities such as self-configuration and self-healing. Testing of each one of these technologies, as well as their integration, demands for novel approaches and is expected to trigger major research efforts in the area.

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