Web Testing

Web Testing

Issues
- Timing difficulties (Asynchronous processes)
- Differences between browsers (Client side code running directly in the browser)
- New technologies that make web browsing a rich, but difficult-to-test, experience (Animation)
Web Testing Tools:

• Functional/Regression Testing
• Load and Performance Testing
• Web Site Security Testing
• Web Site Management Testing
• Mobile Web/App Testing

Web testing tools are a common type of test tool, used for: - Scanning websites for broken or missing hyperlinks (Link checkers)
- Static analysis on HTML, checking for conformance to standards

Main Web Testing Methods
Functionality Testing:

• Check all the links
• Test forms in all pages
• Cookies testing
• Test HTML and CSS
• Database testing - Testing the backend databases, like comparing the actual results with expected results

Web Page Usability Test:

• A method of simulating the user's way of experience
• Test for navigation
• Content checking
• Interface Testing
• Compatibility Testing

Security Testing:

• Testing for vulnerabilities of the web application

Performance Testing

Testing With Different Networks

Other:

• operating systems
• different databases
• different versions