Posts Tagged ‘Browser Compatibility Testing’
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As a website owner, you would ideally wish to convert maximum number of visitors to your site into customers. Imagine a customer leaving your shop without buying anything just because your salesman/ agent could not explain the product to him, even though you had what the customer wanted. The consequence of an incompatible browser is exactly the same. You may have a wonderfully designed site for your business, but what if its features are working only in Internet Explorer and not in Firefox, Netscape or Safari? You would straightaway lose your potential customers.
Sometime back, not many browsers were around to choose from in order to browse the Internet. But today, there are several browsers apart from the different versions in each of them. This scenario leads to a lot of browser compatibility issues in your website, which are seldom noticed by the developers. It needs a very systematic and professional testing approach to find these bugs and resolve them.
Though there are many sources available both online and offline which give suggestions and short-cuts to achieve cross browser compatibility, the best way to ensure browser compatibility is to test all the pages of your website against the different browsers and their versions. We at QC Boss have an expert team to provide you with the excellent services including Browser Compatibility Testing to test your website against all such issues.
Browser Compatibility Testing
You cannot take for granted how your web site will be displayed when called up on a computer running a different operating system than what you use. In fact, there are at minimum 3 main issues that affect the way your web pages are displayed on other people’s screen:
On Top (1) – The browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera etc) and the specific version your viewers use.
Next (2) – The operating system (Windows, Mac, Linux) your viewers run on their machines.
At Last (3) – The screen resolution (1024×768, 1280×768, 1280×1024 and above) your viewers have set on their monitors.
The compatibility testing requirements of a web based application or site could require substantially in-depth/exhaustive testing; after all, having spent a huge amount of money /effort designing the ‘experience’ you wish users to have, it would be useless if a number of users either couldn’t experience the site as designed or in the worst cases were unable to access the site and do business with you. So sad if this happens. It is vital that the site is tested across different browser/operating system/screen resolution to ensure that it behaves as expected.
In fact, browser/operating system/screen resolution inconsistencies are hard to deal with, and to be able to deal with them you have to know what the problems are and what browsers render your site in a quite creative way you probably haven’t expected. To ensure the (more or less) identical presentation in browsers you need to verify its consistency in a number of browsers – before going live with your project. You must not miss doing the Browser compatibility test, cause it will let you to lose visitors if your web pages don’t work on all the popular web browsers. Your web pages may be inconsistent on each browser and the visitors would believe that the website is not professional or is buggy, no one blames the browser.
Browser display problems can basically just kill your web pages, and these display differences are caused by a lot of things such as different browser versions, different computer platforms, screen size, browser bugs, HTML errors, and multiple browsers.
A simple, reliable, straightforward way to test your browser compatibility across the whole spectrum of possibilities. Browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera etc), Operating System (Windows, Mac, Linux), Screen Resolution (1024×768, 1280×768, 1280×1024 and above) and so on.
