The Key Pillars of a Web Application Testing Plan and Strategy

Each development or testing framework comes with pros and cons. Knowing this upfront is an advantage, but this alone doesn’t make up the main element within a testing strategy. These frameworks are the tools and, most likely, the enablers to drive a solid test plan from A to Z.

How and which tool to use needs to be driven by the testing plan and strategy itself, and to build such a plan, software leaders must rely on the core fundamentals of the testing pyramid matched to the product business requirements.

Testing types for web applications

Let’s start with the types of testing that any web application needs to undergo prior to being released to production. The main web application testing types consist of functional, nonfunctional (performance, security, accessibility, etc.), APIs, visual, and so on.