This document discusses cookies, which are text files stored on a user's computer by web applications to identify users and maintain information about a user's browsing session. Cookies help direct users to appropriate web pages and display relevant data. They are utilized by browsers and web servers to track a user's interaction history with a website. There are two types of HTTP protocols that can maintain cookies - stateless protocols that do not track interaction history, and stateful protocols that do track a user's data exchange with a website over time. Understanding cookies is important for testing different aspects of web applications.

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2. What Are Cookies and What do They Serve For?
In order to carry out manual
and automated testing of web software
products one should be familiar with all the
peculiarities of modern web technology.

3. What Are Cookies and What do They Serve For?
One of web technology aspects is cookies.
Nowadays most of web sites and web
applications use them.

4. What Are Cookies and What do They Serve For?
Everybody heard about cookies, but those
who are involved in usability testing,
compatibility testing, localization testing or
other testing types of web software must
know what they are, and for what they
serve.

5. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are text files stored on the user computer. Such
files are created by the web applications with which the
user interacts, they contain data allowing to identify the
user and continue work with the application based on
the previous interaction with it. They store history of
the user work with the web application.

6. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are utilized by browsers and the web servers, they
help to direct the users to the required web pages, display
the suitable data.
So, every time when a user visits a web site that utilizes
cookies, special code embedded in HTML pages activates
and creates or edits cookies on the user device.
Web servers need HTTP protocols for maintaining their
cookies.

7. HTTP Protocols Can be of 2 Types:
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Stateless. Such HTTP protocols do not track or
document history of interaction with web software.
Stateful. They track and record history of data
exchange between a web browser and web server.

8. Bon Appetit!
P.S.: And how many ‘cookies’ have You counted
during the presentation?