Automation
The Challenges of Testing Web Applications
- Web applications use a wide variety of technologies
- Browser-side technologies:
- HTML
- Java Applets
- Java Script
- ActiveX
- Plug-ins
- Ajax
- PHP
- JSP
- Server Side Processing
- Server Plug-ins
- CGI
- Browser-side technologies:
- ServletsWeb applications must be able to run correctly on different web browsers on different platforms
- Multiple browsers platforms and versions exist
- Different browsers display the same page differently (alignment, rendering, etc)
- Different message boxes, security dialogs, cookies, security, etc, et
- Web applications have dramatically inconsistent response times
- Depending on the speed of the server, the speed of the client, network traffic, speed of connection, etc
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