Citrix Systems, Inc.
METHOD OF DETECTING USER INTERFACE LAYOUT ISSUES FOR WEB APPLICATIONS

Abstract:

Techniques for detecting UI layout issues for web applications. The techniques include injecting a detection script into code of a target webpage, and executing the detection script to analyze and/or detect layout issues pertaining to UI elements of the target webpage. The techniques include recursively traversing nodes of a DOM tree of the target webpage. Based on the type of UI layout issue being analyzed and/or detected by the detection script, the recursive traversal of the DOM tree nodes can encompass all levels of the DOM tree or be limited to less than all levels of the DOM tree. By recursively traversing all levels or less than all levels of the DOM tree based on the type of UI layout issues being analyzed and/or detected by the detection script, the techniques can reduce processing resource requirements while decreasing the occurrence of missed UI layout issues in the target webpage.