User interface (UI) testing is to ensure a positive user experience from an application which means testing your software application to see how it is interacting with users. As a conclusion of UI testing we get valid responses for the following:
- Usability
- Consistency
- Accessibility
- Compatibility
In laymen terms, UI testing is carried out to see how a system handles mouse and keyboard inputs along with the verifying whether it displays text, images, icons, menus in place or not. Ui testing is basically for two purpose: usability and errors. Post completion of this testing, one will be able to answer following questions:
- Are all the functions of your software and application working properly and are they easy to use?
- Is it easy to navigate through your application without encountering any bug and error?
Many methods are already evolved to perform UI testing like human or manual testing and automation testing. While Automation testing is easy to do, manual testing is time consuming and requires more efforts. Well, which is better over another is not the matter of discussion now, here we will see why this UI testing so important and what are the benefits of it. So let’s start with the benefits!
The biggest benefits I’ve found after GUI testing are:
- It let’s human GUI testers to do their job that normally robots are doing these days.
- It provides some regression errors.
- GUI Testing covers those parts of application also that are left behind in unit application testing.
- It tells you the difference in behavior between multiple platforms i.e. Windows/Mac/Java versions and various other operating systems.
- It allows you to pounding over the system again and again to find any memory or resource leak.
Personally, I don’t recommend automated GUI testing for every single application, I mean when you are hiring people for software testing then Why utilizing these paid tools for every single task. So if you find this post convincing enough, do let me know in the comments below.
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