Web Application Testing

The primary goal of website testing is to test a website or a web application for bugs and issues that can negatively affect the experience of visitors or users and, as a result, the company’s or product’s image. Web testing is the final stage before the deployment, to validate that the product meets the initial requirements and users’ expectations. The more complex the product is, the more time and resources it takes to test and fix the bugs.

Website testing should involve the following phases. Here I will cover the testing stages individually to provide you with a complete website and web application testing checklist.

Documentation Review

Documentation review is a major phase implying QA experts go through and analyze the test documents to ensure their completeness and accuracy, and, therefore, maximize the efficiency of other testing stages. Here are the artifacts that are usually reviewed:

1. Test policy document describing the testing methods, principles, and goals.
2. Test strategy document explaining the test design technique and determining how exactly the tests should be performed.
3. Project requirements.
4. Test cases.
5. Traceability matrix connecting cases and requirements.
6. Test scenarios.
7. Test plan outlining the approach, schedule, and resources.

Functional Testing

Functional testing is essential to make sure an app works properly and behaves as expected. QA, a functional testing company, helps startups and established businesses find and fix software problems, and navigation issues, and check system accessibility and errors before launching a new release or product. It’s a great way to ensure that both business and user needs are met.

1.No broken links.
2. All internal and external links work properly and lead to the expected pages.
3. Email links work properly.
4. Form validation works properly.
5. The asterisk is visible for all the mandatory form fields.
6. The form cannot be submitted if the mandatory fields are empty.
7. Users can select values from drop-down fields. (if any)
8. Users can attach files to the forms and remove them.
9. Error messages appear when required.
10.CAPTCHAs work properly. (if any)
11. Data is saved in the correct database fields when a user submits a form.

UI Testing

UI testing is essential to ensure that the graphic user interface of your website or web app meets the specifications. During this phase, you should evaluate various design elements visible to users, such as fonts and their sizes, colors, text boxes, icons, buttons, links, and content. UI testing may seem similar to usability testing, and they have a lot in common. At the same time, there are also several significant differences.
The provided checklist will help you complete this phase:

1.Website or web app is displayed properly when being viewed in Chrome, Opera, Safari, Firefox, and Internet Explorer (and the browsers’ different versions)
2. Fonts, colors, images, videos, and GIFs are displayed properly when being viewed in Chrome, Opera, Safari, Firefox, and Internet Explorer (and the browsers’ different versions)
3. Product functions with no errors when being browsed via Chrome, Opera, Safari, Firefox, and Internet Explorer (and the browsers’ different versions)
4. The product operates properly in all the required operating systems
Website or web app looks equally well on devices with different screen resolutions (laptops, smartphones, PCs, tablets) and with different screen orientations
5. No loading issues on devices with different network speeds

Usability Testing

Usability testing aims at measuring how user-friendly and easy-to-use a website or a web app is. It’s one of the most crucial stages of the website testing process, as users won’t appreciate even a fully debugged product in case it delivers a bad user experience. Take a closer look at the following checklist for testing web applications to ensure that your website or app is user-friendly:

1.No spelling or grammar errors
2.All the elements and copy are aligned properly
3.No broken images or videos
4.Content is structured, coherent, and easy to read
5.All the buttons have standard format and size
6.Navigation is intuitive across the entire website or web app
7.Interactive elements are convenient to use
8.Fonts and colors are optimized and consistent
9.Main menu is available on every page
10.Home page link is available on every page
11.Every page includes a relevant and clear heading

Security Testing

Carrying out security testing is essential to detect vulnerabilities and weaknesses, and ensure the security of sensitive data and resources. The outcomes of the phase should be as follows:

1. All the error messages, transactions, and security violation attempts are logged.
2. Website or web app reacts properly to invalid inputs, such as an incorrect username or password.
3. Sensitive data is displayed in an encrypted format.
4.Two-factor authentication works properly.(if applicable)
6.Error messages don’t display any sensitive data.
7.Source code isn’t visible to users.
8.Users can’t access the admin page.
9.Cookies don’t store passwords.