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 ASSESSING WEB QUALITY
• CONTENT EVALUATED AT BOTH SYNTACTIC AND SEMANTIC LEVELS
• FUNCTION TESTED TO UNCOVER LACK OF CONFORMANCE TO
REQUIREMENTS
• STRUCTURE IS ASSESSED TO ENSURE PROPER CONTENT AND FUNCTION ARE
DELIVERED
• USABILITY IS TESTED TO ENSURE THAT EACH CATEGORY OF USER CAN BE
SUPPORTED AS NEW CONTENT OR FUNCTIONALITY IS ADDED
• NAVIGABILITY IS TESTED TO ENSURE THAT ALL NAVIGATION SYNTAX AND
SEMANTICS ARE EXERCISED
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 ASSESSING WEB QUALITY
• PERFORMANCE IS TESTED UNDER A VARIETY OF OPERATING CONDITIONS,
CONFIGURATIONS, AND LOADING TO ENSURE A REASONABLE LEVEL OF USER
RESPONSE
• COMPATIBILITY TESTED BY EXECUTING WEBAPP USING A VARIETY OF CLIENT AND
SERVER CONFIGURATIONS
• INTEROPERABILITY TESTED TO ENSURE PROPER INTERFACES TO OTHER
APPLICATIONS AND DATABASES
• SECURITY IS TESTED BY ASSESSING POTENTIAL VULNERABILITIES AND TRYING TO
EXPLOIT EACH OF THEM

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 WEB ERROR CONCERNS
• MANY TYPES OF WEBAPP TESTS UNCOVER PROBLEMS EVIDENCED ON THE CLIENT SIDE USING
AN SPECIFIC INTERFACE (E.G. MAY BE AN ERROR SYMPTOM, NOT THE ERROR ITSELF)

• IT MAY BE DIFFICULT TO REPRODUCE ERRORS OUTSIDE OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH THE

ERROR WAS ORIGINALLY ENCOUNTERED

• MANY ERRORS CAN BE TRACED TO THE WEBAPP CONFIGURATION, INCORRECT DESIGN, OR

IMPROPER HTML

• IT IS HARD TO DETERMINE WHETHER ERRORS ARE CAUSED BY PROBLEMS WITH THE SERVER, THE
CLIENT, OR THE NETWORK ITSELF

• SOME ERRORS ARE ATTRIBUTABLE TO PROBLEMS IN THE STATIC OPERATING ENVIRONMENT AND
SOME ARE ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE DYNAMIC OPERATING ENVIRONMENT

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 TESTING WEB APPS
• WEBAPP CONTENT MODEL IS REVIEWED TO UNCOVER ERRORS.

• INTERFACE MODEL IS REVIEWED TO ENSURE ALL USE-CASES ARE ACCOMMODATED.

• DESIGN MODEL FOR WEBAPP IS REVIEWED TO UNCOVER NAVIGATION ERRORS.

• USER INTERFACE IS TESTED TO UNCOVER PRESENTATION ERRORS AND/OR NAVIGATION

MECHANICS PROBLEMS.

• SELECTED FUNCTIONAL COMPONENTS ARE UNIT TESTED.

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 TESTING WEB APPS
• NAVIGATION THROUGHOUT THE ARCHITECTURE IS TESTED.

• WEBAPP IS IMPLEMENTED IN A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTAL CONFIGURATIONS

AND THE COMPATIBILITY OF WEBAPP WITH EACH IS ASSESSED.

• SECURITY TESTS ARE CONDUCTED.

• PERFORMANCE TESTS ARE CONDUCTED.

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 TESTING WEB APPS
• WEBAPP IS TESTED BY A MONITORED GROUP OF SELECTED END-USERS LOOKING FOR

• CONTENT ERRORS

• NAVIGATION ERRORS

• USABILITY CONCERNS

• COMPATIBILITY ISSUES

• PERFORMANCE

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 WEB APP TESTING PROCESS
• CONTENT TESTING
– TRIES TO UNCOVER CONTENT ERRORS

• INTERFACE TESTING
– EXERCISES INTERACTION MECHANISMS AND VALIDATES AESTHETIC ASPECTS OF UI

• NAVIGATION TESTING
– USE-CASES BASIS FOR DESIGN OF TEST CASES THAT EXERCISE EACH USAGE SCENARIOS AGAINST THE
NAVIGATION DESIGN (INTEGRATION TESTING)

• COMPONENT TESTING
– EXERCISES THE WEBAPP CONTENT AND FUNCTIONAL UNITS (INTEGRATION TESTING)

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 WEB APP TESTING PROCESS
• CONFIGURATION TESTING
– ATTEMPTS TO UNCOVER ERRORS TRACEABLE TO A SPECIFIC CLIENT OR SERVER ENVIRONMENT
– CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE IS USEFUL

• PERFORMANCE TESTING TO ASSESS

– WEBAPP RESPONSE TIME AND RELIABILITY UNDER VARYING SYSTEM LOADS
– WHICH WEBAPP COMPONENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR SYSTEM DEGRADATION
– HOW PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION IMPACTS OVERALL WEBAPP REQUIREMENTS

• SECURITY TESTING
– TESTS DESIGNED TO EXPLOIT WEBAPP OR ENVIRONMENT VULNERABILITIES

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 CONTENT TESTING OBJECTIVES

• UNCOVER SYNTACTIC ERRORS IN ALL MEDIA

– (E.G. TYPOS)

• UNCOVER SEMANTIC ERRORS

– (E.G. ERRORS IN COMPLETENESS OR ACCURACY)

• FIND ERRORS IN ORGANIZATION OR STRUCTURE OF CONTENT PRESENTED TO END-USER

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 DATABASE TESTING
• THE ORIGINAL QUERY MUST BE CHECKED TO UNCOVER ERRORS IN TRANSLATING THE USER’S
REQUEST TO SQL

• PROBLEMS IN COMMUNICATING BETWEEN THE WEBAPP SERVER AND DATABASE SERVER

NEED TO BE TESTED.

• NEED TO DEMONSTRATE THE VALIDITY OF THE RAW DATA SENT FROM THE DATABASE TO THE
WEBAPP AND THE VALIDITY OF THE TRANSFORMATIONS APPLIED TO THE RAW DATA.

• NEED TO TEST VALIDITY OF DYNAMIC CONTENT OBJECT FORMATS TRANSMITTED TO THE USER
AND THE VALIDITY OF THE TRANSFORMATIONS TO MAKE THE DATA VISIBLE TO THE USER.

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 DATABASE
TESTING

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 USER INTERFACE TESTING
• INTERFACE FEATURES ARE TESTED TO ENSURE THAT DESIGN RULES, AESTHETICS, AND RELATED
VISUAL CONTENT IS AVAILABLE FOR USER WITHOUT ERROR.

• INDIVIDUAL INTERFACE MECHANISMS ARE TESTED USING UNIT TESTING STRATEGIES.

• EACH INTERFACE MECHANISM IS TESTED IN THE CONTEXT OF A USE-CASE OF NAVIGATION

SEMANTIC UNIT (E.G. THREAD) FOR A SPECIFIC USER CATEGORY

• COMPLETE INTERFACE IS TESTED AGAINST SELECTED USE-CASES AND NAVIGATION SEMANTIC

UNIT TO UNCOVER INTERFACE SEMANTIC ERRORS

• INTERFACE IS TESTED IN A VARIETY OF ENVIRONMENTS TO ENSURE COMPATIBILITY

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 TESTING INTERFACE MECHANISMS
• LINKS
– EACH LINK IS LISTED AND TESTED

• FORMS
– CHECK LABELS, FIELD NAVIGATION, DATA ENTRY, ERROR CHECKING, DATA TRANSMISSION,
MEANINGFUL ERROR MESSAGES

• CLIENT-SIDE SCRIPTING
– BLACK BOX TESTING AND COMPATIBILITY TESTS

• DYNAMIC HTML
– CORRECTNESS OF GENERATED HTML
– COMPATIBILITY TESTS

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 TESTING INTERFACE MECHANISMS

• CLIENT-SIDE POP-UP WINDOWS

– PROPER SIZE AND PLACEMENT OF POP-UP

– WORKING CONTROLS

– CONSISTENT WITH APPEARANCE OF WEB PAGE

• STREAMING CONTENT (DEMONSTRATE EXISTENCE, ACCURACY, AND CONTROL OVER CONTENT

DISPLAY)

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 TESTING INTERFACE MECHANISMS
• COOKIES

– CHECK THAT SERVER CONSTRUCTS COOKIE CORRECTLY

– COOKIE TRANSMITTED CORRECTLY

– ENSURE PROPER LEVEL OF PERSISTENCE

– CHECK TO SEE WEBAPP ATTACHES THE CORRECT COOKIES

• APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTERFACE MECHANISMS

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 USABILITY TESTING
• DEFINE SET OF USABILITY TESTING CATEGORIES AND IDENTIFY GOALS FOR EACH

• DESIGN TESTS THE WILL ENABLE EACH GOAL TO BE EVALUATED

• SELECT PARTICIPANTS TO CONDUCT THE TESTS

• INSTRUMENT PARTICIPANTS’ INTERACTIONS WITH THE WEBAPP DURING TESTING

• DEVELOP METHOD FOR ASSESSING USABILITY OF THE WEBAPP

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 USABILITY TESTING GOALS
• INTERACTIVITY
– INTERACTION MECHANISMS ARE EASY TO UNDERSTAND AND USE

• LAYOUT
– NAVIGATION, CONTENT, AND FUNCTIONS ALLOWS USER TO FIND THEM QUICKLY

• READABILITY
– CONTENT UNDERSTANDABLE

• AESTHETICS
– GRAPHIC DESIGN SUPPORTS EASY OF USE

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 USABILITY TESTING GOALS
• DISPLAY CHARACTERISTICS
– WEBAPP MAKES GOOD USE OF SCREEN SIZE AND RESOLUTION

• TIME SENSITIVITY
– CONTENT AND FEATURES CAN BE ACQUIRED IN TIMELY MANNER

• PERSONALIZATION
– ADAPTIVE INTERFACES

• ACCESSIBILITY
– SPECIAL NEEDS USERS

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 COMPATIBILITY TESTING
• GOAL IS TO UNCOVER EXECUTION PROBLEMS THAT CAN BE TRACED TO CONFIGURATION
DIFFERENCES
– DEFINE A SET OF COMMONLY ENCOUNTERED CLIENT-SIDE COMPUTING CONFIGURATIONS AND THEIR
VARIANTS

– ORGANIZE THIS INFORMATION (COMPUTING PLATFORM, TYPICAL DISPLAY DEVICES, OPERATING

SYSTEM, AVAILABLE BROWSERS, CONNECTION SPEEDS)

– DERIVE COMPATIBILITY VALIDATION TEST SUITE FROM EXISTING INTERFACE TESTS, NAVIGATION TESTS,
PERFORMANCE TESTS, AND SECURITY TESTS

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 COMPONENT LEVEL TESTING
• BLACK BOX AND WHITE BOX TESTING OF EACH WEBAPP FUNCTION

• USEFUL TEST CASE DESIGN METHODS

– EQUIVALENCE PARTITIONING

– BOUNDARY VALUE ANALYSIS (ESP. FORM FIELD VALUES)

– PATH TESTING

– FORCED ERROR TESTING

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 NAVIGATION TESTING
• SYNTACTIC NAVIGATION TESTING

✔ LINKS

✔ REDIRECTS

✔ BOOKMARKS

✔ FRAMES AND FRAMESETS

✔ SITE MAPS

✔ INTERNAL SEARCH ENGINES

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NAVIGATION TESTING
• SEMANTIC NAVIGATION TESTING

✔ NAVIGATION SEMANTIC UNITS ARE DEFINED BY A SET OF PATHWAYS THAT CONNECT NAVIGATION
NODES

✔ EACH NSU MUST ALLOWS A USER FROM A DEFINED USER CATEGORY ACHIEVE SPECIFIC
REQUIREMENTS DEFINED BY A USE-CASE

✔ TESTING NEEDS TO ENSURE THAT EACH PATH IS EXECUTED IN ITS ENTITY WITHOUT ERROR

✔ EVERY RELEVANT PATH MUST BE TESTED

✔ USER MUST BE GIVEN GUIDANCE TO FOLLOW OR DISCONTINUE EACH PATH BASED ON CURRENT
LOCATION IN SITE MAP

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CONFIGURATION TESTING
• CONFIGURATION TESTING SERVER-SIDE
✔ COMPATIBILITY OF WEBAPP WITH SERVER OS
✔ CORRECT FILE AND DIRECTORY CREATION BY WEBAPP
✔ SYSTEM SECURITY MEASURES DO NOT DEGRADE USER SERVICE BY WEBAPP
✔ TESTING WEBAPP WITH DISTRIBUTED SERVER CONFIGURATION
✔ WEBAPP PROPERLY INTEGRATED WITH DATABASE SOFTWARE
✔ CORRECT EXECUTION OF WEBAPP SCRIPTS
✔ EXAMINATION SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION ERRORS FOR IMPACT ON WEBAPP
✔ ON-SITE TESTING OF PROXY SERVERS

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 CONFIGURATION TESTING
• CONFIGURATION TESTING CLIENT-SIDE

✔ HARDWARE

✔ OPERATING SYSTEMS

✔ BROWSER SOFTWARE

✔ USER INTERFACE COMPONENTS

✔ PLUG-INS

✔ CONNECTIVITY

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