Daily 500 web applications are developed on a daily basis. This number depicts that we have indeed reached far in digital transformation. Also, web applications have been adopted by almost every vertical from banking, retail to education to reach out to their potential customers. But developing a web application and maintaining its seamless functioning needs web application testing to eliminate various defects. In this blog, we will discuss various methods for web application testing to increase the performance of web applications.
Cross browser testing eliminates compatibility issues
Device fragmentation is a common issue in web apps in which the web app image is distorted. This occurs when some users run the app on older versions of operating systems and others run it on the newer versions. Also, there can be compatibility issues during the browser updates. Hence in cross-browser testing, the application is tested for various device browser and os combinations to eliminate the compatibility issues.
GUI testing improves the User Experience
GUI testing ensures that the UI of the web application enhances the user experience and it is being developed as per the customer’s requirements. It ensures that there is no defect in terms of color, font size, the UI element functioning, simple navigation, etc and they match the specified criteria and client’s requirements. Also through cross browser testing there is no bug in the UI elements with respect to the variations in browser and os versions. All these testing activities contribute to enhancing the user experience of the web application.
Increases the performance speed
In web application testing, a number of bugs and defects are eliminated so that the web application functions seamlessly, this automatically increases the speed of the web application. Another major factor causing the high-speed functioning of the web application is maintaining the right user load. While performance testing, the threshold number of users is calculated, which helps maintain the high speed of web applications at calculated user load. Similarly, cross-browser testing, unit testing, integration testing, continuous testing, and advanced methodologies like Agile and DevOps helps to maintain the high-speed performance of the web application.
Maintains User Load
As discussed earlier, knowing the number of user loads that can lead the website to crash is extremely important to avoid that issue. Hence threshold number of user load is calculated through performance testing which helps to keep the count of the number of users that does not obstruct the speed of the app. Hence performance testing helps to maintain the user load and increase the performance of the application.
No Security issues
Data security needs to be at the highest priority. Hence security testing is fundamentally important and crucial to gain customer’s confidence. Security testing guards the web application against all the data breach activities, internet vulnerabilities, etc. Security testing must be kept at top priority by any testing organization. All the testing organizations make a point to be security compliant and it’s no secret that security compliance ticks the first requirement in the checklist of the client companies.
Conclusion
Excellent-performing web applications are the need of the hour as their primary source of attracting traffic and leads. Hence, brands focus on web application testing to offer a seamless performing web application with an excellent user experience. Web application testing not only provides multiple benefits but it’s a backbone for a good performing web application. So do note all the important points mentioned in the blog to understand the importance and the value web application testing provides your online shop.
