In the fast changing and highly competitive web-based business environment, it is critical for organizations to test their web sites and web applications using an automated testing tool. Automated web testing should ensure that the web applications/web sites/web services usual functionality works correctly, provides the ability to reuse and extend the tests across multiple browsers/platforms/languages/databases/servers and ensure that all the users accessing the web applications get results in an acceptable time.
Ultimately, web testing large or small Web applications/Web Sites requires some kind of expertise. Today, most of the organizations contact dedicated QA professionals, testing labs and testing consultants to get this done. Also, the need of the day is to do remote web testing instead of traveling to a particular site for teams who are geographically distributed. This helps to cut costs, minimize the effort required to test web applications/web sites, increase software quality, reduce time-to-market and use reusable test cases.
- Functionality Testing – Test Web Applications/Web Sites to ensure that all aspects of your site functions properly such as images, text, form elements, dialogs, menus appear correctly, HTML links work, form submissions succeed, etc.
- Compatibility Testing – Test Web Applications/Web Sites to ensure that it is compatible with different browsers, operating systems, languages, databases and servers.
- Localized Testing – Automate localization testing of your web applications/web sites to test multi-language deployments of your applications without re-recording.
- Stress Testing – Test Web Applications/Web Sites to determine the system’s breaking point based on predefined failure criteria.
- Load Testing – Test Web Applications/Web Sites to ensure that it is capable of handling a predetermined peak load by generating 1000’s of users on the Web site.
- Web Services Functional Testing – Test Web Services to ensure that the functionality works correctly by validating the responses sent to each SOAP/HTTP request.
- Web Services Performance Testing – Test Web Services to gather the performance and stability information of web services by realistically simulating the load on your web services.
- Regression Testing – Test Web Applications/Web Sites/Web Services by running all day and night to ensure that it is still working between builds or releases.
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