Cross Browser Compatibility

Now a day’s web application are more common so that for a web application it is important to check the compatibility of this application on different browser at different platform. The goal of browser compatibility testing is to ensure that the site renders without error on the target web browsers. Some minor rendering differences are expected from browser to browser, or within different versions of the same browser. The reason behind Cross browser testing is that every browser has its own HTML rendering engine which parse and display slightly differ in text formatting, image alignment far the same webpage. In the same way each browser interprets the Java Script in its own way. The major browser on which we are test the compatibility IE6 and IE9, IE10, Mozilla Firefox (latest version), Chrome(latest version), Safari(latest version), Opera(latest version)

The Major issue that we have to check in Compatibility testing-

·         Validation of CSS and HTML

·         Image alignment

·         Page validation with enabled and disabled Java Script

·         Page layout with different screen resolution

·         Header and footer

·         Font style, Page style and date format

·         Text Format and Special character Format

·         Ajax and Jquery Functionality

·         Zoom in and Zoom Out

Note: These tests are repeat in different OS like Window, Linux, Mac.

Free online tool for Compatibility Testing

Browser Shots: This is free online tool which provide you browser compatibility testing in different platform under different version of browser. http://browsershots.org/

IE Tester:  This tool provides you testing of your website in different version of IE. It supports IE5, IE6, IE7, IE8, IE9.  http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage

Net Render…This tool is same as IE Tester which provides you browser compatibility testing under different version of IE.  http://netrenderer.com/index.php?page=1

Adobe Browser Lab:  This tool is provide you better solution of compatibility testing under different version of browser at different platform. https://browserlab.adobe.com

Some More Tools:

Litmus:  http://www.litmus.com/

Cross Browser Testing: http://www.crossbrowsertesting.com/

Spoon Browsers: http://spoon.net/