GUI Testing brief

Testing Process:

1. GUI Testing: Graphical user interface testing is a process to testing the application’s user interface and detecting its all elements appearing properly or not. Here testers verify/comparing the user interface of application with its expected values.  Under this we check that how application handles the keyboard and mouse events. Generally we start the GUI testing in early stage of STLC.

·        Content should be correct.

·        Wrap-around properly.

·        Switch images off for ALT texts

·        Switch JavaScript off and See if appropriate messages are displayed to user.

·        Check sensible page titles.

 a. GUI Elements:

-         Buttons

-         Checkboxes and radio buttons

-         List boxes and combo boxes

-         Edit boxes

-         Menus

-         Windows, tabs, blocks

-         Pictograms

-         State line

-         Input forms

-         The structure of interface forms

-         Text

-         Interaction

-         Keyboard

-         Visual representation

-         Indication

b. Arrangement:

-         Visual hierarchy

-         Effective usage of screen space

-         Element sizes.

10 Important things to Remember in GUI testing of Web application

·        Test the usage of Frames in the application

·        Test the Scrolling text for inconsistency

·        Test for existence of complex URLs embedded particularly dynamic pages

·        Make sure Orphan pages do not exist

·        Look for long scrolling pages or forms of Input

·        Identify pages with No support for navigation

·        Check for usage of non standardized link colors

·        List out forms which contain Information which is no longer relevant

·        Identify forms which take long to download and recommend for optimization

·        Check Reports and capability to download or convert to standard formats of storage and retrieval