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Testing is essential for ensuring the functionality, quality, accessibility, security, and performance of your web application, ultimately enhancing user experience.
Key components of web application testing include color contrast, typography, images, navigation, search, forms, and performance.
Utilize a variety of accessibility testing tools and methods to cover a comprehensive range of components like ARIA labels, keyboard navigation, and screen reader compatibility.
Leverage front-end testing frameworks such as Jest, Vitest, Cypress, Mocha, or Jasmine to efficiently write and automate tests, supporting both behavior-driven and test-driven development.
Employ runner frameworks like Web Test Runner, Playwright, Web Driver, or Node.js's Test Runner for executing tests across multiple environments and platforms.
Testing is crucial to ensuring the functionality, quality, accessibility,
security, and performance of your content driven web application. Testing lets
you assess the user experience and determine if further development is
necessary. Your web application should meet quality standards and perform as
expected.
This provides basic testing guidance for you to consider to make your web
application accessible and user-friendly.
Components
Color contrast
Ensures that the contrast ratio is optimized for readability. Checks need to be done for
various types of color blindness and user defined high contrast forced colors.
Typography
Determines if the application accommodates different devices and settings. By using relative
font size and non linear scaling the typography can still be usable on the max size.
Images
Ensures that the images are high quality and can load quickly. It is important to check for
correct fallbacks with no network and optimized assets for higher resolutions.
Navigation
Ensures that the navigation is clear and usable by mouse, touch and keyboard navigation.
Checking the history api ensures the back and forward navigation is also preserved
correctly.
Search
Check for low latency in response times to queries in the URL query parameters and search
field.
Form
Ensures that all forms are user-friendly to complete and submit. If overriding the default form
submission the correct events need to be listened to and checked for proper form reset and
protection against malicious user input.
Performance
Ensures that the application is efficient and responsive, with fast load times. This should be
an important part of regression testing too.
There aremany toolsyou can
use to check web accessibility. It is important to use multiple methods in order
to cover the range of accessibility components. Be sure to check for ARIA
labels, a11y on DOM elements, keyboard navigation, and screen reader use.
Front end testing frameworks, such asJest,Vitest,Cypress,MochaorJasminehelp you write tests
efficiently and support behavior-driven and test-driven development. With
integrations into CI/CD pipelines you can also automate your tests and help
prevent regression bugs in commits.
Runner frameworks, such asWeb Test
Runner,Playwright,Web
Driveror theTest Runner in
Node.jslet you execute these
tests efficiently and support testing across multiple environments and
platforms. This is not an exhaustive list and depending on the framework you are
using there could be testing built-in.
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