Things to Know About Testing for Multiple Browsers Support
A simple Google search reveals that there are multiple browsers existing today, including Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer and many more. What makes things really complex is the fact that there are multiple versions of each Browser and so there are around 2,000 total browsers in all existing today.
This huge number of Browsers and the versions can be a challenge for QA professionals, because making a web application compatible across such a large number of browsers is no mean feat. What works for one browser might not work for another and so there is the need for a lot of efforts to ensure that web applications run smoothly across multiple browsers. New age web application testing tools such as QARA Enterprise, Katalon Studio, and TestComplete, are the solution to this persistent challenge of QA professionals.
These platforms offer multiple browsers support which helps QA teams to ensure that the web application is working fine on all the browsers. There are quite a few advantages of using a multiple browsers support tool for evaluation of web applications.
The QA team needs to create a script for testing on one browser, which can then be used, or rather reused, on all compatible browsers when testing with the same platform. This can be a great advantage as it does not require additional time and efforts of QA professionals and helps them the time to other important tasks.
These platforms that offer multiple browsers support are quite flexible when it comes to the compatibility with web technologies used for developing the application. In other words, the platform can support applications developed using pure web technologies like HTML, as well as those developed using plugins like Java applets.
As mentioned above, platforms that offer multiple browsers support not just support one or two but the entire range of versions of all the browsers. This means using such a platform helps QA professionals completely ensure that the web application will perform as desired on every user's device.
Tools offering Multiple browsers support also provide users access to popular web libraries for helping in the process of test execution. There is also access to popular frameworks such as React, Angular, etc.
In addition to the points mentioned above, testing tools with multiple browsers support are useful in many ways because they also give access to JavaScript API on the browsers and at the same time, offers support for new HTML5 properties.
Multiple browsers support is therefore one of the most sought-after properties of a web application testing tool. After all, unless and until a web application is tested on multiple browsers, it can never be confirmed if it will behave the same way on all browsers. New age testing platforms have taken multiple browsers support to the next level bi also adding multiple-platform supports for mobile apps and also simultaneous execution functionality to execute multiple tests on a single platform at the same time.
When looking for a web application testing tool, every QA team today should invest in a tool with multiple browsers support. This way, it will be easier to perform extensive testing on the browsers supported by the web application. And doing so will make QA teams confident enough that their web applications will make a big impact without compromising on the UI.