Chapter 1: Cross-Browser Testing Methodologies
Over the past few years, web technology has advanced significantly. End users are now exposed to a whole new level of mature web apps in the form of responsive and progressive apps such as React and Flutter. With these advancements, developers are challenged more than ever with ensuring the continuous quality of their web apps, regardless of which platforms (mobile, desktop, or both) they are being used on.
This chapter covers the most advanced web technologies and web application types you will come across, including responsive and progressive types. It is specifically designed to cover the main trends that typically impact web application developers, along with the various testing types that are relevant for such applications. The web landscape offers developers a wide range of web application types across different application frameworks. Applications such as responsive web, progressive web, Flutter, React Native, and more are only a subset of the range of such applications. In this chapter, we will outline the main application types and what they mean as well as how they differ from each other to help frontend developers consider different testing activities.
This chapter will cover the following main topics:
- An overview of the web landscape
- Understanding web application types
- Testing types for web applications
- Understanding headed and headless browsers within app development and testing
