Methods of Web Applications Testing

August 10 10:33 2015 by Nataliia Vasylyna Print This Article

Many testers during their career at least once faced with incomplete testing of sites that almost always leads to considerable financial costs, customer dissatisfaction, and, eventually, to the re-development of the portal.

For the organization of high-quality web-resource testing professionals recommend to follow a special procedure.

Stages of Competent Web Applications Testing:

Preparation of the test plan based on the documentation received.
Functional testing – the most difficult part of the testing process. At this stage, all the functional requirements of the software, references operation, searching for non-working hyperlinks are tested. The files uploading on a server, counters’ work on the portal pages, user forms (for example, contacts, feedback, subscriptions, add messages, etc.) are checked. The compliance of the content pages with source codes is verified.
Layout testing – verification of the elements location, the compliance with layouts, graphics optimization, the validity of code, cross-browserness (such as running a web site in various browsers).
Usability Testing – validation of the user friendliness degree with the product. It is based on attracting users as testers, all the results and opinions are analyzed.
Security Testing – at this stage the tester verifies the protection of all the closed pages.
Performance Testing – determination of the site’s speed at a given load. Load testing is also used at this stage.