ABSTRACT FOR MAIN PROJECT

Software testing is an investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the product or service under test. Software testing also provides an objective, independent view of the software to allow the business to appreciate and understand the risks of software implementation. Test techniques include, but are not limited to, the process of executing a program or application with the intent of finding software bugs.

Software testing can also be stated as the process of validating and verifying that a software program/application/product are meeting the business and technical requirements that guided its design ; development and works as expected and can be implemented with the same characteristics

Manual testing is the process of manually testing software for defects. It requires a tester to play the role of an end user, and use most of all features of the application to ensure correct behavior. To ensure completeness of testing, the tester often follows a written test plan that leads them through a set of important test cases

            Although manual tests may find many defects in a software application, it is a laborious and time consuming process. In addition, it may not be effective in finding certain classes of defects. Test automation is a process of writing a computer program to do testing that would otherwise need to be done manually. Once tests have been automated, they can be run quickly. This is often the most cost effective method for software products that have a long maintenance life, because even minor patches over the lifetime of the application can cause features to break which were working at an earlier point in time

            Test automation may be able to reduce or eliminate the cost of actual testing. A computer can follow a root sequence of steps more quickly than a person, and it can run the tests overnight to present the results in the morning. However, the labor that is saved in actual testing must be spent instead authoring the test program. In this context , a strategy for testing has come into existence and main idea behind using navigation testing is to identify how a web page is moving from one page to another

             In this project we are going to prepare a framework by comparing the architecture elements of two testing tools(XNEE, QTP) . Not only just getting the framework but testing the web application by using testing tools like QTP, Load Runner w.r.t navigation testing so as to understand how the web pages are moving and also how every link works.

             Finally the main aim of the project is to test any web application using testing tool w.r.t navigation testing by taking all architectural elements into considerations . Along with above all we are also taking these elements as test cases and we are getting testing results & test summary by analyzing and testing these elements.