Theoretically, you test the Web services your app relies on when you run your Web tests. It's a question of when you write tests for a given component that is the core issue for testing such services.

Testing web apps is tedious, time-consuming work, even when you have an automation framework to handle the heaviest of the lifting. Playwright, a web app test system originally developed by folks at ...

Microsoft isn't going to make its August deadline for delivery of a wide-scale test build of its Office Web Apps technology. But officials told me they're close to delivering the promised Technical ...

Ever wondered what would happen if you launched your web applications without load testing them? You may run into glitches and lose a huge chunk of your customer base due to poor app performance. For ...

Oracle plans to make Empirix's e-TEST Web applications testing suite a core component of its Enterprise Manager product Fresh off a strong third-quarter earnings report, Oracle announced Thursday that ...

Canadian researchers have built a set of free exploit tools for Web applications that run as Firefox browser plug-ins; the so-called ExploitMe suite includes tools for cross-site scripting (XSS) and ...

Google tests the Web Install API to let users install web apps directly from any site in Chrome, Edge, and future browsers ...

Many industry watchers were expecting July 13 to be Microsoft's coming-out party for Office Web Applications, the company's Web-centric version of its core Office apps (Word, Excel, poerPoint and ...

Fresh off a strong third-quarter earnings report, Oracle announced Thursday that it has agreed to acquire a set of Web application testing products from Empirix for an undisclosed sum. Oracle plans to ...