Applications are classified into three types first one is Web Application second one is Client-Server Application and the last type is Stand Alone Application.
What Exactly Is a Web Application?
Any application that can be accessed by opening the browser and entering the url is called as Web Application. Eg:- Facebook.com, Flipkart.com, Gmail.com, Amazon.com, Bookmyshow.com etc
How Web Application can be Configured and Tested
According to above picture customer will give requirement for gmail.com and this requirement is given to developers and test engineers.
Development lead will assign features to developers so every developer will write the code for respective assigned feature by using different programming language and also they will do white box testing and prepare the build in different format as mentioned in the above picture.
Development lead or Senior developer will collect all the files compress and store it in development server in .tar format in the below mentioned path.
D:/Build/B01gmail.tar .
Development lead will send a mail to test lead stating that build is ready for testing and white box testing is done.
Now test lead will first configure testing server means first he will install operating system into the testing server then he will install web server , application server and database server into the testing server once all the installation is done we can saw testing server is ready for use.
Now Test Lead will connect to development server copy and paste build B01.tar into testing server untar and install HTML files into web server, Java and JSP files into application server and database files into database server and test lead will give url, username (UN) and password (PWD) to test engineer and also assign the features to test engineers.
Test Engineers will open the browser enter the url and start doing functional testing, integration testing, system testing and performance testing for the web application.
Web application runs on 3 tier or N tier architecture.
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