Cross Browser Testing – A Necessity or luxury?
The wave of digital transformation which started a decade ago is maturing day by day. Applications are the catalyst to the spread of digitization which has impacted more that 65% of the entire world population. The absence of smartphones leads 95% of millennials to be dysfunctional in their basic daily chores.
These metrics indicate the dire need of the applications to work seamlessly and excellent user experience. Mobile application testing and web application testing is the darling solution for proper functioning of mobile and web apps. Testing applications brings a lot of roadblocks in the journey which can be tackled through some testing techniques like cross browser testing. In this blog we will discuss what cross browser testing is and how important it is to build high performing apps.
You must have come across issues in your apps like distorted images, change in the shape and size of the UI elements after updating the app etc. Such types of issues occur in the application due to incompatibility between the device and browser and OS.
Hence to overcome this we perform cross browser testing. In cross browser testing the application is tested across various device, browser and OS combinations to make sure application’s compatibility with various combinations of device, browser and OS. In this blog, we will understand all the factors that forces the organization to implement cross browser testing for developing high performing apps.
Ensures compatibility between various device, browser, OS combinations
In Cross browser testing, the application is tested across the combination of various browsers, OS and devices to ensure compatibility of the application with various combinations of browsers, OS and devices. There are many cross browser testing tools available in the market and one of the most common ones is the Selenium. The Selenium suite consists of tools like selenium web driver and selenium grid which allows the testing of the mobile application through multiple devices, browsers and OS.
Enhances User Experience
In the world where delivering services and quality products on time is extremely crucial, cross browser testing performs parallel testing of the applications with a number of the combinations of devices browsers and OS to ensure that the application is compatible with almost all the versions of devices browsers and OS available in the target market.
The compatibility with almost all the devices available in the target market helps in preparing apps with good quality UI. Due to compatibility the percentage of the bugs in the UI minimizes.
No errors in the GUI
Nowadays new versions of devices and browsers are getting released frequently. Hence each time the OS or browser updates, we need to test the application multiple times, otherwise the UI s. For example, the frame of the credential box may have round corners for one type of browser and square corner for the other type of browser. So due to cross browser testing these errors get resolved.
Conclusion
Unlike in the old days, in the waterfall model where deployments used to take place once in the year, today new versions of browsers and OS gets released so frequently that the testing and deployment needs to be performed frequently.
Hence here cross browser testing ensures that the application is compatible with the updated versions of browsers. Generally, automated cross browser testing is implemented which makes the entire process quick. Hence cross-browser testing is very important for the speedy deployment of the projects.
A comprehensive tool like the cloud platforms would serve as the best cross browser testing tool, as we can add or remove multiple devices very easily for testing. Cross browser testing enhances the user experience of the application which helps in attracting and retaining traffic in the website. Hence all these factors make cross browser testing a necessary testing method providing quality@speed results.