Web Testing
checklist.
1) Functionality
2) Usability
3) Interfaces
4) Compatibility
5) Performance
6) Security
1. Functionality Testing:
Test for – all the
links in web pages, database connection, forms used in the web pages for
submitting or getting information from user, Cookie testing.
Check all the links:
- Test the outgoing links from all the pages
from specific domain under test.
- Test all internal links.
- Test links jumping on the same pages.
- Test links used to send the email to admin or
other users from web pages.
- Test to check if there are any orphan pages.
- Lastly in link checking, check for broken
links in all above-mentioned links.
Test forms in all
pages:
Forms are the
integral part of any web site. Forms are used to get information from users and
to keep interaction with them. So what should be checked on these forms?
- Check all the validations on each field (email
Ids, User financial info validations)
- Check for the default values of fields.
- Check for wrong inputs to the fields in the
forms.
- Check Options to create, delete, view, or
modify the forms.
Cookies testing:
Cookies are small
files stored on user machine. These are basically used to maintain the session
mainly login sessions.
- Test the application by enabling or disabling
the cookies in the browser options.
- Test if the cookies are encrypted before
writing to user machine. If you are testing the session cookies (i.e.
cookies expire after the session ends) check for login sessions and user
stats after session end.
- Check effect on application security by deleting
the cookies.
Validate your
HTML/CSS:
If you are optimizing
your site for Search engines then HTML/CSS validation is very important.
- Mainly validate the site for HTML syntax
errors.
- Check if site is ‘crawlable’ to different
search engines.
Database testing:
Data consistency is
very important in web application.
- Check for data integrity and errors while you
edit, delete, modify the forms or do any DB related functionality.
- Check if all the database queries are
executing correctly, data is retrieved correctly and also updated
correctly.
2. Usability Testing:
- Navigation:
This means how the user surfs the web pages, different controls like
buttons, boxes or how the user uses the links on the pages to surf
different pages.
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Ease of use:
Web site should be easy to use. Instructions should be provided clearly. Check
if the provided instructions are correct means whether they satisfy purpose.
Like search option, sitemap, help files
etc. Sitemap should be present with all the links in web sites with proper tree
view of navigation. Check for all links on the sitemap.
“Search within the site” option will
help users to find content pages they are looking for easily and quickly. These
are all optional items and if present should be validated.
- Main menu should be provided on each page. It
should be consistent.
- Content checking:
Content should be logical and easy to understand.
Check for spelling errors. Appropriate colours, fonts and frames.
Content should be meaningful. All the
anchor text links should be working properly. Images should be placed properly
with proper sizes.
3. Interface Testing:
- Web server and application server interface
- Application server and Database server
interface.
Check if all the interactions between
these servers are executed properly. Errors are handled properly. If database
or web server returns any error message for any query by application server
then application server should catch and display these error messages
appropriately to users.
Check what happens if user interrupts
any transaction in-between.
Check what happens if connection to web
server is reset in between.
4. Compatibility Testing:
Some applications are very dependent on
browsers. Different browsers have different configurations and settings that
your web page should be compatible with. Your web site coding should be cross
browser platform compatible. If you are using java scripts or AJAX calls for UI
functionality, performing security checks or validations, then put more focus
on browser compatibility testing of your web application.
Test web application on different
browsers like Internet explorer, Firefox, Netscape navigator, AOL, Safari,
Opera browsers with different versions.
- Operating system compatibility.
Some functionality in your web
application is may not be compatible with all operating systems. All new
technologies used in web development like graphics designs, interface calls
like different API’s may not be available in all Operating Systems.
Test your web application on different
operating systems like Windows, Unix, MAC, Linux, Solaris with different
Operating System flavours.
Mobile browsing is fast becoming one of
the most demanded webpage requirements. Test your web pages on mobile browsers
to flush out compatibility issues
If you are giving page-printing
options, then make sure fonts, page alignment and page graphics are getting
printed properly.
Pages should be fit to paper size or as
per the size mentioned in printing option.
5. Performance Testing:
Web applications
should be capable of sustaining heavy load & Stress.
Load Testing:
Test application performance on
different internet connection speed.
Test to verify that the system sustain
in peak load times
Test to verify that the site can handle
many simultaneous user requests
Test to verify that the site can handle
large input data from users, Simultaneous connection to DB, heavy load on
specific pages etc.
Stress testing:
Generally stress
means stretching the system beyond its specification limits.
Web stress testing is
performed to break the site by giving stress and checked how system reacts to
stress and how system recovers from crashes.
Stress is generally
given on input fields, login and sign up areas.
In web performance testing web site
functionality on different operating systems, different hardware platforms is
also checked for software, hardware memory leakage errors,
6. Security Testing:
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Test by pasting
internal URL directly into browser address bar without login. Internal pages
should not open.
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If you are logged in
using username and password and browsing internal pages, then try changing URL
options directly. I.e. If you are checking some publisher site statistics with
publisher site ID= 123. Try directly changing the URL site ID parameter to
different site ID which is not related to logged-in user.
Access should be denied for this user to view others stats.
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Try some invalid
inputs in input fields like login username, password, input text boxes. Check
the system reaction on all invalid inputs.
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Web directories or
files should not be accessible directly unless given download option.
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Test the CAPTCHA for
automates scripts logins.
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Test if SSL is used
for security measures. If used proper message should get displayed when user
switches from non-secure http:// pages to secure https:// pages and vice versa.
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All transactions,
error messages, security breach attempts should get logged in log files
somewhere on web server.