Every businesses should have a website these days to improve their online sales revenue and compete against their fast growing competitors. Having just a website is not enough to gain more profits and closed sales, it is vital to make sure the website is user-friendly and offer all the details what the users are supposed to have. Other than this, the website should be a secured place to browse; this is very important, if the website deals with processing payments and other sensitive information like customers personal details etc. For webmasters, it is very important to protect the security and functionality of their website, to do so, they have to implement web testing and make sure that, all possible threats to the website are identified and fixed, not only that, the functionality & performance of the website too have to be ensured.
Web testing has to be in place to ensure the website is browser compatible. A website should be viewed in all the browser to improve usability. Some users may use Internet Explorer, some may use Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox – so, it is important that the website can be explored on all the browsers without any issues and the website creates the impression (regardless of the browser which is used to explore the website) that is supposed to be generated by the call of actions. Not only the browser comparability, it is vital to confirm that the website is more responsive to all the devices, such as mobile phones, iPads, desktop and other devices.
The next important area to be tested is, the functionality of the website. The initial requirements to have a website should be studied and the functionality that are granted to have, should be identified from the study and tested to verify the website is designed and developed accordingly to do what is supposed to do.
Last but not least, the security of the website is must to be measured and all possible loopholes that let the website to get attacked, should be identified, clarified and fixed. By doing web security testing, it should be confirmed that proper standards and settings are implemented to avoid hackers or other external activities that can create negative impacts to the website and the web business. As part of web security testing, the host, networks, web control panel access settings and etc should be scanned and tested.