Talk:Web testing

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what is the difference between the testing of web application and desktop application other than the web based & desktop based?

A request... It'd be good if someone could outline the unique challenges of web testing (i.e. multi-tier/platforms/languages - xml, html, css, javascript, asp/php/jsp, DLL, dbms, client browser standards, etc. etc.)...Even better...How about some practical suggestions for scoping, designing, performing web application testing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.201.204.112 (talk) 10:04, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There is little difference between web testing and desktop testing. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 19:57, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Desktop testing generally refers to testing an application that runs on one machine and makes little or no use of other computer systems. (Technical clarity: your computer using a printer can be viewed as two computers.) Web applications are at least two computers and in the case of most networks, including the Internet, untold numbers of other computers. Hence, the tester must be much more concerned with a different set of problems, such as, Deadlock, Race conditions, and in general Distributed computing.

As a particular problem. Take the Wikipedia standard of signing a comment with four tildes, ~~~~ . This requires a timestamp to be generated. There are at least three sources for the clock (local ! wiki server ! 3rd party ) Clock synchronization. Each of these clocks presents a different set of problems for the tester. This is somewhat of a trivial problem for Wikipedia as the timestamp is only recorded to the nearest minute and with proper Record locking during editing will prevent conflicts, also being able to recreate the exact order of events is a minor concern. For a commercial retail operation, the timestamp might be vital. Johnson-Bob (talk) 03:01, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This article isn't much more than a list of tools, many of which can be used to test desktop applications. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 02:31, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This article should be descriptive about why the word web testing is required. How it is different than software testing. This should be the main focus for this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.74.114.3 (talk) 04:39, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This article is a glorified list advertising testing tools

This article seems to have an undue focus on the tools with which you can do some forms of web testing, rather than methodologies and processes. --Topperfalkon (talk) 15:16, 22 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

That's always a problem with articles like this. Good content is hard, relies on the time of busy people (why write here for free when you can get £40-50 / hour writing about it elsewhere?) and spamlists are easy. As there are already two links to a "list of tools" article, let's be brutal and nuke the lot. Andy Dingley (talk) 19:04, 22 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

But we should at least link to the lists then. Walter Görlitz (talk) 04:03, 23 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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• Information to be added or removed: change “Robert Johnson” to “Bob Johnson” • Explanation of issue: Get my name correct. I agree this page is way out of date, however, I would like my name fixed. • References supporting change: Testing Applications on the Web Johnson-Bob (talk) 11:45, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]