Web Portal Testing

The web portals are powerful and have the ability to provide feature rich content to a wide audience spread across the globe at an economical cost. It is a daunting task to test these web portals with more and more features.

Web portal testing is different as many factors and scenarios affect the performance and user experience. Web portals can also be exposed to wide range of security threats.

To ensure that the web portal works reliably and correctly under different situations a lot of factors need to be accounted for and tested. Hence a good amount of effort needs to be put in for Test Planning and Test Design. Test Cases should be written covering the different scenarios not only of functional usage but also technical considerations such as load, stress, etc.

Technology platform upon which the Web portal was built also creates different strengths and weaknesses. Different Test Automation approaches are adapted for different Technology Platforms. This can influence the Test Strategy and the way in which Test Execution is done.

Web portal development needs to be improved by comprehensive web portal testing processes and practices. Building the portal with designed framework, later by evaluating and improving the state of the art testing will steer the future for better results from the web portal.