Web Application Testing Steps

XBO's web application testing services cover Functionality testing, Usability testing, Interface testing, Compatibility testing, Performance testing, and Security testing.

1) Functionality Testing: This covers areas such as links, database connections, forms used for submitting or getting information from the user, and 'cookie'.

• Check all links
  1. Test the outgoing links from all the pages from specific domain under test.
  2. Test all internal links.
  3. Test links jumping on the same pages.
  4. Test links used to send the email to admin or other users from web pages.
  5. Test to check for orphan pages.
  6. Check for any broken links in all above-mentioned items.
• Test forms in all pages:
  1. Check all the validations on each field.
  2. Check for the default values of fields.
  3. Confirm inputs and boundary values for all fields.
  4. Options to create forms if any, delete, view or modify the forms.
• Cookies testing:
  1. Test enabling or disabling of cookies in different browser options.
  2. Test for cookie encryption before writing to user machine.
  3. Check for login sessions and user statistics after session end.
  4. Confirm effect on application security by deleting the cookies.
• Validate HTML/CSS:
  1. Validate the site for HTML syntax errors.
  2. Check if site is 'crawlable' by different search engines.
• Database testing:
  1. Check for data integrity and errors while editing, deleting, or modifying forms.
  2. Check if all the database queries are executing correctly, and data is retrieved correctly and updated correctly.
• End-user scenarios:
  1. Check all of the major scenarios that a user may execute when using the application from beginning to end.
  2. For simple web sites, this may include logging on and logging off and presenting the appropriate customized content.
  3. For more sophisticated web applications, it may include accounting calculations and general ledger reconciliations with graphical reports.
  4. For graphical oriented or media applications, this may include properly rendering the right animation combined with user player controls.
  5. For newer web 2.0 flex based applications, all data collected from user interactions must be tracked and recorded properly to collect real-time user behavior data.