What Features Of Web Browsers Should Be Considered During Software Testing?

Among such software products are web browsers. Any web application should be tested at least in several popular web browsers. People prefer working with various browsers; and they are upset when a site operates poorly in their favorite one.

Web browser is a special software product by means of which various data are downloaded and uploaded from a computer. It interprets, processes, exchanges and displays the requested information.

Any modern web browser is a complex powerful application containing some built-in software products. Browsers are meant to create great user experience. They not just send, receive and represent information. They deal with networking issues, processes various kinds of data, not only text and images, but video and audio files as well. They use a lot of ways of improving user experience.

One of the ways is storing persistent data on the user device, such as cookies, enabling to customize the visited sites. Browsers also deal with cache. It is used for temporary storage of loaded data from visited sites on the client machine.

All the browsers allow users to clear cookies and cache and start interaction with the sites as from the first time.

At Present the Most Popular Web Browsers Are:

- Chrome;

- Firefox;

- Internet Explorer;

- Safari;

- Opera.

There are several popular mobile browsers that should be used during testing activities.

Widely Used Mobile Web Browsers Are:

- Chrome;

- Opera;

- Maxthon;

- Sleipnir;

- Browser;

- Firefox;

- Dolphin.

Mobile web browsers and browsers for personal computers have some distinctions. There are some peculiarities of working with them that should be taking into account during testing activities and ordinary usage.

The Peculiarities Are:

1. The same gestures or touch inputs may be utilized for the tested mobile program and for a mobile browser. A software testing company advises to check during mobile testing how the software and the browser cope with such inputs. There is no such problem with desktop browsers.

2. Each browser has components allowing it to create better user experience. Programs for processing video belong to them. Various mobile platforms support certain programs and formats of files. One may install some additional programs handling the issue on a personal computer. There is no such possibility on mobile devices. One should consider this aspect executing mobile application testing and web site testing.

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