UI (User interface) is one of the important part of every software applications or web applications or mobile applications or etc. There were times when the UI required users to input some text commands to communicate with the system and navigate along the system, but these days, as technology advanced almost every applications are using GUI (Graphical User Interface) to communicate with users and let the users to have the best interaction and marvelous user-experience with the applications. Specially for websites, it is must to have a user-friendly website to get more business through websites. With GUI users can quickly explore more on what the businesses have and easily navigate; having an eye-catchy, functional, user-friendly and secured website is a vital marketing tool for many online businesses today. The websites and website GUI should be tested before the release to get more new customers, to retain existing customers and so on. To do so, functionality test, security test, load speed, and many other testings should be performed before the release to public view.
Even though the testing can be executed by human, there are automated testing tools available in the market to save time and money for the business owners or website developers. These automated tools are with more features and facilities which help the users to do various testings around their GUI and website, most of the tools have record and playback feature that is useful to do regression testing to find out any bugs or issues after the application is developed or any enhancements, configuration changes and etc have been implemented to the application.
Website users do not like to wait even a nanosecond to load a website, if a website failed to load, they will quickly quit that website and go for another. That means, a business is losing out a prospective customer (via online) with slow website. So, it is very important to test loading speed of the website and optimize it and make it quicker to keep the visitor in the site. With automated testing tools, website loading can be tested effectively.
Other than loading testing and functionality testings, websites should be tested for broken links. The automated tools can check each links on the web pages and report the broken links. As well as if a website is going to store or gather customer details and other sensitive information (like credit card information, SSN# etc) – the security testing is very important. The security test can be automated and the results can be compared with expected results by a human tester/web developer.
Based on reports form automated tools for various kinds of testing, the bugs can be fixed and it is easy to do same testing procedures again to make sure all the bugs (that are reported with previous testing phase) is fixed before the release. With automation tools, each test cases can be repeated easily and confirm that latest changes which have been done to fix reported issues, do not cause more bugs to earlier functionality, security and loading speed of the website.
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