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stephen · Joined: 31 Aug 2007 Posts: 13

What is the requirements of website testing ?

abhishekh_07 · Joined: 31 Aug 2007 Posts: 13

Assuring WebSite quality requires conducting sets of tests, automatically and repeatably, that demonstrate required properties and behaviors. Here are some required elements of tools that aim to do this.

Test Sessions. Typical elements of tests involve these characteristics:

*Browser Independent. Tests should be realistic, but not be dependent on a particular browser, whose biases and characteristics might mask a WebSite's problems.

*No Buffering, Caching. Local caching and buffering -- often a way to improve apparent performance -- should be disabled so that timed experiments are a true measure of the Browser-Web-WebSite-Web-Browser response time.

*Fonts and Preferences. Most browsers support a wide range of fonts and presentation preferences, and these should not affect how quality on a WebSite is assessed or assured.

*Object Mode. Edit fields, push buttons, radio buttons, check boxes, etc. All should be treatable in object mode, i.e. independent of the fonts and preferences.

Object mode operation is essential to protect an investment in test suites and to assure that test suites continue operating when WebSite pages experience change. In other words, when buttons and form entries change location on the screen -- as they often do -- the tests should still work.

However, when a button or other object is deleted, that error should be sensed! Adding objects to a page clearly implies re-making the test.