Over time, there has been a significant increase in the number of internet Browsers and devices. Presently there are more than 16 billion active mobile devices on the planet. This number is estimated to increase to 18.22 billion by the end of 2025. These changes and the rise of the consumer and experience economy make cross-browser testing essential.
Cross-browser testing is a type of non-functional testing that ensures that applications are compatible with commonly used browsers such as Google Chrome, Safari, Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Internet Explorer. It also ensures that everything works perfectly irrespective of the operating systems, devices, and browsers the application is accessed from.
Having a clear and comprehensive cross-browser testing checklist is critical today for multiple reasons:
Also, it's noteworthy that design and development have moved towards agile development methodologies. DevOps and continuous integration with updates by the hour or day have replaced annual updates. However, with every code change comes the risk of browser/device/OS incompatibility. As a result, elements like layout, quality, content, connectivity, etc., can vary slightly to exponentially from one browser to another.
To that end, cross-browser compatibility testing ensures that the website or application appeals to the broadest range of users. Here's a look at critical items that should be a part of the cross-browser testing checklist.
Content testing ensures that all the content is understandable and displayed correctly in each of the browsers. Cross-browser testing ensures images are displayed in standard resolutions, fonts are readable, and audio and video files work as expected. It also has to determine the time it takes for the largest element of a page to load.
The content testing checklist should validate the content being displayed on the website. Therefore, it should validate the following:
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Layout testing discovers noticeable inconsistencies and verifies resolution, reliability, availability, and resource scaling.
In essence, layout testing should check the:
Functionality evaluation validates that the features and functionalities of an application or web page do not change when browsers change. Hence, a cross-browser testing checklist should evaluate certain key parameters to drive product stickiness. In essence, the functionality evaluation checklist should:
Performance evaluations during cross-browser compatibility testing ensure that the websites or applications are responsive, available, and performance-driven. In effect, higher load or concurrent users should not impact website performance.
Performance evaluation identifies if and how the application changes across browsers and allows developers to take remedial action.
So, performance evaluation should:
Since the use of APIs is increasing, cross-browser testing should also account for checking whether all the APIs connect to all browsers. Validating CSS, HTML, and XHTML, along with validating the SSL certificate for all the specified & targeted browsers, are important testing areas.
Cross-browser testing is exhaustive and can be incredibly hard to implement with manual testing. So, test automation is imperative for comprehensive cross-browser compatibility testing. However, writing test automation scripts, maintaining the testing infrastructure, test beds, and suites, updating scripts, and testing complex journeys eat up valuable developer time.
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