Today, there are many tools available in the market that helps to perform functional testing for web applications. But, most of the testing tools do not make it easy to test and repeat the test to find whether the same issues occur or not when a real user communicates with the web application.

Businesses that depend on web applications for business operations should frequently test their application to cover the most critical issues in making sure that there won’t be any interruptions anytime during the work.

Testing of web-based applications is difficult than any other application due to its varied peculiarities and complexities. Basically, web applications are accessed concurrently by a large number of users from across the globe. They run on complex, varied execution environments that are created with different hardware, network connections, operating systems, web servers and web browsers. Web applications commonly depend on wide variety of software components that are built by different technologies.

Unfortunately, due to the pressure of developing the product under tight deadlines and very short time-to-market, the testing of Web applications is often neglected by many SMEs of web application development, since it is considered to be time-consuming and substantially expensive.

The current testing tools in the market are trying to change this trend by continuously improving testing models, methods, techniques, and tools that enable testing processes to be implemented effectively and in a cost-effective manner.

Implementing functional testing for web application early in the software development cycle helps to find functional issues, make decisions and suggest changes that ultimately speeds up development, improves quality and reduces risks towards end of the cycle. If functional testing is performed at the end of the product that will delay the product time to market because fixing defects at the end of the product will take a significant amount of time. If functional testing is not performed for the web application product and delivered into the market it is certain to get negative feedback from the customers which will effect business reputation, loss of customers and loss in revenue.

It is very essential to know how the internal application executes its requisite functions to assure the full functionality of web application. A small malfunction anywhere in the application can stall the work of all the users, delay the productivity and provide a serious problem for the business owners. Implementing functional testing at the user interface phase is very vital as it can expose many faults that are not visible when conducting a source code review. Despite quality code, if the user interface doesn’t work it is frustrating to the user.

Traditionally, manual testing is often error prone, takes too long and leaves incomplete coverage, SMEs need to approach highly effective automation testing. Validating the behavior of an application against business requirements with highly effective functional test automation is very crucial. Testing the functionality of the module in the application based on user’s perspective will make responsibilities easier for the web application development companies and accelerates product time to market.

Quick Checklist for Web Application Functional Testing

• Verify whether all the individual functions are performing correctly
• Test links in web pages
• Test forms used in the web pages ­­­­­
• Test Cookies
• Validate HTML/CSS
• Check for data integrity

ClicTest provides cloud-based, on demand software testing solution. It helps in improving the software testing productivity by enabling manual testing team to easily perform highly effective functional test automation for the web applications since it doesn’t require any technical knowledge to do so.

To know more about ClicTest’s testing services and solutions, kindly  write to us at info@clictest.com