What is website testing and why it required in development process?

Web testing is the name given to software testing that focuses on web applications. Web Testing in simple terms is checking your web application for potential bugs before its made live or before code is moved into the production environment it verifies that the product (system) meets the functional, performance
By web application testing, any organization can be sure that the web application will work perfectly and will be easily accepted by the end-users.
This is the process in which the defects are identified, isolated, and subjected for rectification and finally make sure that all the defects are rectified , in order to ensure that the product is a Quality product.
Web site can also be tested in various ways – by observing user experiences, by asking questions of users, by timing the flow through specific usage scenarios, and by comparing it with other sites.

Why required?

In the today’s fast growing world of the Internet customer wants to get products to be implemented and updated faster than their competitors. Customer want more for software releases with new features to be implemented in short time frame (as early as possible), but they don’t like to work with defected software. As next version of the product will releases in next few days, & gets only a couple of days of testing before it is shipped.
So due to this short time frame or continuous releases the more bugs gets piled up into the products and which gets fixed in the next release, Releasing such software with so many bugs into it may affects the user experience which makes bad impact on quality impression of your company brand. They will remember about the delivered bad quality product, so there will be Importance of testing

1. Testing will improve the software quality. To maintenance to keep your web site up to date and current.
2. Testing will give confidence for the software development company or Even the client of the software that the software will work satisfactorily in client environment.
3. In the today’s competitive market only the quality product stays longtime firmly, so to make sure the produce the good quality product the testing of application is key factor in SDLC.
4. While finding defects / bugs is one of the purposes of software testing, it is not the sole purpose. It is important for software testing to verify and validate that the product meets the stated requirements / specifications.