Web Testing: A Next-Day Service « Softheme Blog

Posted by Katerina Tokarieva, QA Director, Softheme

July 28th, 2009

Web Testing: A Next-Day Service

Keywords: banners, cross-browser testing, defect-tracking system, emails testing, full-cycle testing, functional testing, load/performance testing, look & feel testing, next-day service, regression testing, support testing, test engineers, testing environment, text checking, ui verification, Web testing, widgets

Softheme offers web testing as one of our next-day services. What does this mean? This means that we have our own testing environment installed onsite (working machines, testing systems, etc) and test engineers ready to start at any time. We also provide an access to the defect-tracking system fully set up and ready for work on our side. These conditions let us start working on your project immediately and noticeably accelerate the testing process. Practically, we can start testing a project the next day after a customer’s final decision.

Usually we suggest the following engagement models for web testing projects:

1. Full-cycle testing

Basing on the requirements provided by a customer we develop a test strategy, test plan, test cases (functional, performance, usability, look and feel, and others), and then start with the first iteration of testing. At this point the team executes all required types of testing specified in the test strategy and reports discovered defects to the defect-tracking system on a daily basis. After the first iteration of testing is completed, the team starts regression testing and works in conjunction with the development team – all encountered and fixed defects are retested; all tests are re-run to ensure the functionality works as expected after bug-fixing.

2. Support testing.

We get involved at some particular point of the development process. A customer inform us about the time when they would like to start testing and provides us with the list of functionality/defects/tasks that need to be tested (release notes) within the build. Our engineers then create appropriate test cases and run them reporting the bugs and discussing them with the developers if needed.

Web testing services we can offer:

Functional and regression testing of the new/old functionalities;

Style and UI verification;

Emails testing, emails campaign testing;

Cross-browser testing – we test compatibility across the following browsers: IE6, IE7, IE8, Chrome, Firefox and Safari on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Mac OS systems;

Text checking (misprints, compliance with the initial documents);

Usability testing – we can test compliance with W3C (AA, A level) / WAI standards (presence of picture captions, website operation with/without JavaScript, links working, links duplication, site reaction to text decrease/increase, HTML code accuracy, etc);

Look & feel testing – check the website look and feel against requirements;

Load/performance testing – we will do the following:

analyze what you expect from the website (number of queries, users, etc);
then create load scenarios and check to which extend the expectations match actual results;
generate real data when the website works without failures, with failures (% of failures), and doesn’t work;
test and learn how the site behaves on peak loads during long time period;
provide results in the form of load scenarios, testing results, and report with recommendations to enhance website performance.