Web testing

Web testing

Web testing is the name given to software testing that focuses on web applications, and is one of the fastest growing areas of software testing.

Complete web testing of a system before going live is the primary step to get assured of an entire web application’s ability to work properly. It can help address such issues like readiness of your web server for the traffic you are expecting and for the increasing number of users, the ability to survive a massive spike in user traffic, your server hardware sufficiency and so on. After performing web tests you’ll be able to find bottlenecks in your systems before they happen in a production environment.

Neglecting performance problems can lead not only to poor end-user experience, but even application crashes. Many bugs can only be found when the system is placed under load. You won’t be able to discover these bugs by testing the system as a single user during the development process. That is why testing of web systems under load is really important.

Links

[http://www.loadtestingtool.com/web-testing.html Web Testing: a critical step in web application development]
[http://www.automationanywhere.com/solutions/automatedtesting.htm Power and Ease of automated web testing]

Further reading

* Hung Nguyen, Robert Johnson, Michael Hackett: "Testing Applications on the Web (2nd Edition): Test Planning for Mobile and Internet-Based Systems" ISBN 0-471-20100-6
* James A. Whittaker: "How to Break Web Software: Functional and Security Testing of Web Applications and Web Services", Addison-Wesley Professional, February 2, 2006. ISBN 0-321-36944-0
* Lydia Ash: "The Web Testing Companion: The Insider's Guide to Efficient and Effective Tests", Wiley, May 2, 2003. ISBN 0471430218
* S. Sampath, R. Bryce, Gokulanand Viswanath, Vani Kandimalla, A. Gunes Koru. Prioritizing User-Session-Based Test Cases for Web Applications Testing. Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation (ICST), Lillehammer, Norway, April 2008.
* “An Empirical Approach to Testing Web Applications Across Diverse Client Platform Configurations” by Cyntrica Eaton and Atif M. Memon. International Journal on Web Engineering and Technology (IJWET), Special Issue on Empirical Studies in Web Engineering, vol. 3, no. 3, 2007, pp. 227-253, Inderscience Publishers.

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