Web Testing

Web Consistency Testing

Web Consistency Testing is a new form of Web testing that aims to answer the simple question: does this page look right? It’s an automated approach to making sure a page looks the way we expect, whether that be cross-browser, over time (regression), in multiple locales, or whatever else we can think of.

Essential Online Tools for Websites Testing

Essential Tools for Testing Your Websites. Free tools to test a website for seo, accessibility, compatibility and performance. Great for web designers

10 Best Open Source Web Testing Tool

JMeter – Load and Performance tester JMeter is a pure Java desktop application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. It may be used to test performance both on static and dynamic resources (files, Servlets, Perl scripts, Java Objects, Data Bases and Queries, FTP Servers and more). It can be used to simulate [...]

Tips on Creating Stable Functional Web Tests to Compare Across Test Runs and Browsers

Writing stable functional tests that run on multiple browsers is not as easy as I thought it to be. In this blog I discuss several workarounds I had to implement in order to get my Selenium WebDriver scripts running on multiple browsers and stable enough to not only verify functionality but also analyze performance characteristics [...]

Improve Browser Performance With the CSS Stress Test Tool

CSS3 backgrounds, rounded corners, box shadows, text shadows, opacity and transformations save web developers hours of time. Basic effects can be achieved without resorting to image slicing, additional elements or scripting. Despite this, not all is rosy in the CSS3 world. When I first dabbled with the techniques a couple of years ago, I was [...]

How to Build the Best Browser Test Suite

Testing a website used to be so much easier. You would develop and test your code in Internet Explorer and be totally oblivious to anything but major HTML, CSS or JavaScript errors. Even the most conscientious developers would only test a couple of other minority browsers. Today, we are faced with 5 mainstream browsers and, [...]

We Cannot Avoid Testing JavaScript Anymore

You have to test your web application. Since the current year is 2011 and not 2002, you’re going to use Ajax requests in it, and a certain amount of JavaScript code. JUnit, PHPUnit, NUnit and other frameworks perfect for server-side languages cannot directly test your JavaScript code, since they cannot execute it. No problem, we [...]

Web Testing and Selenium

I have this web project. Pretty complex one. The code coverage is over 90%. Awesome! I even have a Continuous Integration set up. My code is built, and my tests make sure that functionally works as expected. I even have a well defined suite of UI tests using an internal renderer that is super fast. [...]

Google extends bounty program for Web application bugs

Search giant Google Inc. Monday extended its Google bug bounty program, adding rewards for bug hunters who find serious Web application flaws in Blogger, Orkut and YouTube. The move is an expansion of Google’s current bounty program, which was launched in February to reward security researchers who reported Chrome browser flaws. Google said it would [...]

Web Application Security: Testing for Vulnerabilities

The increasing reliance on data-driven Web sites has caused an incline in the number of attacks launched against them. As a developer, understanding how a site can be attacked is paramount to making it secure. Discover some of the more common attacks, and learn about the tools you can use to spot them. To write [...]

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