Testing Applications on the Web Overview of Web Based Testing

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Testing Applications on the WebOverview of Web
Based Testing

• Hung Q. Nguyen
• Bob Johnson
• Michael Hackett

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Basics of Web Testing

• Introduction
• This section covers the basics
• Planning and Documentation required
• Testing Costs should be part of the planning
• Amount of testing that can be done is limited
• Look for redundant test cases
• Test Coverage
• The breadth and depth of testing

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Basics of Web Testing

• Test Conditions
• Important to web based testing
• Two types of test conditions
• Applications Specific conditions within
  application
• Environmental Specific outside application

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Basics of Web Testing

• Static Operating Environment
• Tends to stay in a fixed configuration
• Compatibility test test issues with combinations
• Web system
• Client
• Server
• Network

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Basics of Web Testing

• Dynamically operating environment
• Specific environment does not stay constant
• Test reflect environment before changes
• Tests need repeating with different resources
• Resource contention is a test case

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Basics of Web Testing

• Types of testing
• Acceptance testing
• Developmental acceptance testing
• Deployment acceptance testing

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Basics of Web Testing

• Deployment acceptance testing
• Release acceptance testing
• Function Acceptance Testing

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Basics of Web Testing

• Functional Acceptance Testing
• Task oriented functional test
• Forced error test
• Boundary test
• Real world user level test
• Exploratory test
• Load Volume test
• Stress test
• Performance Test
• Fail Test
• Availability test

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Basics of Web Testing

• Functional Acceptance Test 2
• Reliability Test
• Scalability Test
• API Test
• Regression Test
• Compatibility Test
• Documentation Test
• Online Help Test
• Cookies Toolkit Test
• Install Uninstall Test
• User interface Test

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Basics of Web Testing

• Functional Test 3-
• Accessibility Test
• External Beta Test
• Date Test
• Security Test
• Client , server, database, components
• Server Boxes
• Client Workstation
• Network
• Unit Test

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Basics of Web Testing

• Phases of Development
• Alpha- most of the product developed
• Pre Beta Some type of acceptance Test
• Beta - some release of testing
• UI Freeze UI Complete - some error changes
• Gold Master Candidate test team has it
• Final Test last round before formal release
• Gold Master Final Release