Web Application Testing-1

Web Applications Testing

I) Overview:

Now a days Web Applications are getting more popular in the IT Industry, having so many advantages like supporting more clients, no client side installation and accessing from any ware etc…

 

Types of Web Application

 We can categorize web applications in two ways

 

a)    Business Classification

 

1)     Web Sites (They provide information about Organizations or Industries or persons)

2)    Web Portals (They are Business gateways, ex: Online Shopping sites, Job portals etc.)

3)     Web Applications (They are Service providers (both Free and Paid), apart from information) Ex: Net Banking Applications, Insurance Applications etc…)

 

b)    Technical Classification

1)     Intranet Applications (They are private applications, uses local area network (LAN))

2)     Internet Applications (They are Public applications, uses Wide area network (WAN)

3)     Extranet Applications (They also Private applications over Internet (WAN))

 

Browser:

It is a Software Application, which retrieves, and Presents information in text, image and voice like different file formats.

The browser is the viewer of a Web Site and there are so many different browsers and browser options that a well-done Web Site is probably designed to look good on as many browsers as possible.

Popular Browsers:

• Internet Explorer
• Mozilla Firefox
• Google Chrome
• Safari
• Opera
• Etc…