Category: Digital

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User Conditions Importance in Web App Testing

Usually when talking about Web testing, QA teams tend to stick with functional, layout and performance testing. In this blog we would highlight the importance of testing for web apps from the end-user perspective and assuring that the experience is also covered in the test plans.

In today’s competitive landscape many web app sites are exposed to a lot of interrupts whether from web add-ons or in the majority of cases adware popups which often interrupt the user flows within the web page or even cover existing and important content from your web page.

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Source: Mashable


In such cases as mentioned above, Dev and Test team need to asses the impact of such pop ups from upper bar security and other add-ons interruptions together with larger ad pop ups covering your web content – as seen above, sometime even when blocking the ads would not solve the problems since the ad vendor will sense that they are on and will pop a different screen.

As a supporting fact to the pain ads are adding to web site owners, we see reports of more than 5.5 millions downloads of Adblock plus tool for FireFox browser just over the last 30 days.

As a quick tip in this blog – enhance your web test plan beyond functionality and cover the cases of environment conditions.

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Tests to Include Within Automation Suite

When developing a mobile or desktop test automation plan organization often struggle with the right scope and coverage for the project.

In previous post, i covered the test coverage recommendations in a mobile project and now, i would like to also expand on the topic of which tests to automate.

Achieving release agility with high quality is fully dependent today more than ever on continuous testing which is gained through proper test automation, however automating every test scenario is not feasible and not necessary to meet this goal.

In the below table  we can see some very practical examples of test cases with various parameters with a Y/N recommendation whether to automate or no.

As shown below, and as a rule for both Mobile, Web and other projects the key tests by definition which should be added to an automation suite (from ROI perspective and TTM) are the ones who are:

  • Required to be executed against various data sets
  • Tests which ought to run against multiple environments (Devices, Browsers, Locations)
  • Complex test scenario’s (these are time consuming and error prone when done manually)
  • Tedious and repetitive test cases are a must to automate
  • Tests which are dependent on various aspects (can be other tests, other environments etc.)

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Bottom line: Automation is key in today’s digital world, but doing it right and wisely can shorten time to market, redundant resources and a lot of wasted R&D time chasing unimportant defects coming from irrelevant tests

Happy Testing!

 

 

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Q1 2016 Calendar Overview

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The year just started but as you can see, the market is already busy and we can see as a continuation to 2015, that Apple is much more active on its bug fix releases compared to Android.

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Happy Testing!