Web Application Functionality testing

Web Applications testing process or web application functionality testing

I believe while testing a new application, we should perform a round of smoke testing just to get an idea that the major functionality is working. This can be achieved by clicking all the present links on the website, this will give an idea if there are any broken links. Also if all the pages are getting navigated as per the specifications. This round of testing minimizes the risk of getting the show stoppers at the last moment and hence saves times and money.

Then we come to the functional testing. Here we test the functionality of the web application. We execute our functional test cases to test if all the pages are working as per the specifications. Functional testing is generally combined with system integration testing so interface and usability testing or compatibility testing can also be tested at the same time. There are two aspects of testing here

Static – Page level validation is done here like cosmetic. Spell check, page name, color, text format, buttons on the page etc come in this category. We just have to open that page in a website in order to perform static testing.

Dynamic – Here we test the functionality of that particular page by actually executing that. We perform few actions in order to check the output. And this has to be done in +ve and negative way both.

Hope this helps

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Ishaa Awasthi