Web Testing

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Testing

Testing is a process of executing a program or application with the intent of finding the bugs.

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Web Testing

Web Testing in simple terms is checking your web page/application for potential bugs before its made live or before code is moved into the

production environment.

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Quality Measures

Timeliness Structural Quality Content Accuracy and Consistency Response Time and Latency Performance

Quality of the website is very important for the user. A website with too many broken links, defective images,

may cost a lot for an e-commerce website. Users will quickly leave for a different site if the website is too

complex and of low quality.

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Problems in Testing

In traditional client-server systems, the respective roles of the clients and servers and their interactions are predefined and static.

In web applications, however, client side programs and contents may be generated dynamically

Compatibility and interoperability are urgent and cause problems that are more serious than with traditional programs.

Web applications also have much faster maintenance requirements than most traditional software.

Web technologies evolve more rapidly than traditional software technologies. Web applications also have features that are not present in client-server and

distributed systems. These include session control, cookies, and the stateless aspect of HTTP.

The components may be executed on different server platforms . Different browsers may be used.

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Web Application Testing Checklist:

Functionality Testing Usability testing Interface Testing Compatibility testing Performance Testing Security testing Crowd Testing

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Web Testing Tools

Selenium Ibm rational Qtp Feedback army, chalkmark Renorex, alertfox Netmechanic Loadrunner, jmeter Cross, bfbtester End user

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Selenium provides a record/playback tool for authoring tests without learning a test scripting language (Selenium IDE). It also provides a test domain-specific language (Selenese) to write tests in a number of popular programming languages, including Java, C#, Groovy, Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby. Selenium IDE

Selenium IDE is a fully-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that installs as a plugin in Mozilla Firefox and enables developers to test their web applications through Selenium. With the Selenium IDE, you can record user interactions with the web browser and play them back to test for errors.

WebDriverWebDriver is a tool for automating web application testing, and in particular to verify that they work as expected. It aims to provide a friendly API that's easy to explore and understand, easier to use than the Selenium-RC (1.0) API, which will help to make your tests easier to read and maintain.

What is Selenium?

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Easy record and playback Intelligent field selection will use IDs, names, or XPath as needed Autocomplete for all common Selenium commands Walk through tests Debug and set breakpoints Save tests as HTML, Ruby scripts, or any other format Support for Selenium user-extensions.js file Option to automatically assert the title of every page

Features

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Commonly Used Selenium Commands

open – opens a page using a URL click/clickAndWait – performs a click operation, and optionally waits for a new

page to load. verifyTitle/assertTitle – verifies an expected page title verifyTextPresent – verifies expected text is somewhere on the page verifyEelementPresent – verifies an expected UI element, as defined by its

HTML tag, is present on the page. verifyText – verifies a table’s expected contents. waitForPageToLoad – pauses execution until an expected new page loads. waitForElementPresent – pauses execution until an expected UI element,

as defined by its HTML tag is present on the page.

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Summary

Site management software is very essential for testing a website before getting it live. Your site has to be tested, fixed, retested and fully documented. Any applications utilized in the website have to be tested for performance and scalability.

Web testing is still just evolving because software used in the web are relatively new to other software. Software testing has been around for a long time. But there are many companies making software for web testing. A developer need only choose one that meets his needs and his budget.

A developer's job isn’t finished after the designing and encoding. Web testing is a very critical part of website development.