Web Application Testing - Challenges & Prospects

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Web Application Testing - Challenges Prospects
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Web Application Testing

• Over the years, testing a web application has
  become even more complex and an involved process
  with the development of new designs and marketing
  concepts.
• The requirements for SEO, loftier user visibility
  and maximum business exposure have led the
  development of websites with intricate designs,
  superior technical proficiency and functional
  ability.
• These features have enhanced the tasks of
  software testing engineers significantly and pose
  a myriad of challenges before them.
• Lets share a view on the emerging challenges of
  Website Testing

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Compatibility and Visibility Testing

• Website testing faces more complex challenges
  than before.
• Businesses now focus on designing websites that
  are compatible for all the browsers and machines.
  
• This calls for website testing for compatibility
  and validation testing on a wider scale.
• A web app testing team is required to examine the
  speed, performance, security, browsing facilities
  and a variety of related issues before validating
  browser compatibility for a website.

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• Each browser has different specifications,
  algorithms, and display principles and requires
  websites to follow their standards.
• Likewise, the use of websites across various
  localization settings demand effective testing
  for adaptation and dynamism facilitating the
  end-user experience.

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Design and Business Relevancy

• Modern websites are required to strike a perfect
  balance between the design aesthetics and
  marketing.
• The emergence of online business concepts demand
  the creation of websites that look attractive and
  are business friendly.
• Web application testers and quality assurance
  experts must give due consideration to ensure
  that the looks of the website do not impact the
  marketing potential and the business outlook.
• The videos, podcasts, links, patches, interactive
  designs, voice protocols, and gateways must be
  positioned at the right place and should not
  hinder the work.

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Technological Challenges

• The technology is changing continuously, and the
  web developers are employing the latest of the
  block to help businesses create the best possible
  website.
• Web page testing experts now continuously acquire
  and train resources in the latest technologies.
• Lack of tools and expertise must not cause budget
  and time overruns.

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Expanding Varieties of Websites

• Not only the websites have become complex, their
  varieties have also increased over time. New
  websites created these days focus more on
  e-commerce, e-learning, auctioning, and other
  such areas.
• Each of these has different usability, security,
  acceptance, and optimization characteristics that
  must be taken care of during the web application
  testing.
• Just testing a website is not sufficient, it is
  important for the entrusted team to understand
  the basic postulates behind all the objectives
  targeted end user behavior and conformity to the
  necessary industry trends.

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Functional and Navigation Testing 

• The end user experience is vital for every
  successful online business and no web testing
  team can afford to ignore it.
• Customers these days use a variety of mediums
  such as smart phones, tablets, laptops to browse
  websites.
• The work-flow, accessibility and integration
  issues that arise out of design complexities and
  the demands of the business now require
  employment of better expertise and superior
  skills when testing a website.

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Challenges in Security

• In a fast changing environment full of web-based
  vulnerabilities, security challenges pose serious
  challenges for testing experts.
• The web application testing team needs to
  consider all the potential threats and ensure
  that the site remains free from any external
  attack or hacking.
• They examine the security scanners from all the
  potential angles and carry on the penetration
  test of the highest order to make sure that a
  website has the least potential vulnerability.

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