Types of Cross Browser Testing

Cross Browser Testing is a process to test web applications across multiple browsers. Cross browser testing involves checking compatibility of application across multiple web browsers and ensures that web application works correctly across different web browsers. Cross Browser testing involves testing both the client side and server side behavior of the Web application when it is accessed using different Web Browsers.

So just testing the web application on single web browser is not enough. We need to make sure that the web application works fine across multiple browsers.

Cross Browser Testing can be the biggest pain for Software testers. But availability of online browser testing tools has helped to minimize the testing efforts. A cross browser-testing checklist that can be referred while testing a web project on different browsers and operating systems is referred:

1). CSS validation2). HTML or XHTML validation3). Page validations with and without JavaScript enabled4). Ajax and J Query functionality5). Font size validation6). Page layout in different resolutions7). All images and alignment8). Header and footer sections9). Page content alignment to center, LHS or RHS10). Page styles11). Date formats12). Special characters with HTML character encoding13). Page zoom-in and zoom-out functionality14). Different Operating Systems like Windows, Linux and Mac15). Different browsers (with different versions) like Internet explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and Opera. There are many free and paid cross browser-testing tools available in the market. Depending on the needs we can select the browser compatibility tool. For most of the projects software testing companies prefer free cross browser testing tools, which are sufficient to verify cross browser usability.

1). Some of the tools present in the market are:2). Spoon Browser Sandbox:3). IE NetRenderer4). IE Tab5). IE Tester6). BrowserCam7). Browserseal8). Browsershots9). Microsoft SuperPreview

10). Browsera 11). Adobe BrowserLab

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