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COOKIES TESTINGSESSION TIMEOUT
TESTINGJAVASCRIPT TESTING
Cookie is small information stored in text file on user’s hard drive by web server.
This information is later used by web browser to retrieve information from that machine.
Generally cookie contains personalized user data or information that is used to communicate between different web pages.
What is Cookie ?
Why we have to test Cookie ?
To make sure that the cookies do not store confidential information .
To check the number of cookies used
Make sure that the application maintains its efficiency when switched off or Accept cookies
Why we have to test Cookie ?
To check application response to the damaged cookies
Make sure that cookies are stored and removed it to the pages on which it is expected and necessary
Testing that cookies are working correctly in all browsers that will be used by application
Why we have to test Cookie ?
To make sure that the application adequately responds to delete cookies manually
To verify that the access to different parts of the application can not be done to bypass the cookie used for authentication or authorization
A. Disabling Cookies
This is probably the easiest area of cookie testing
Disable all cookies and attempt to use the site’s major featuresand functions
With cookies disabled,our testing job is somewhat reduced
How To Test Cookie ?
B. Selective Rejecting Cookie
Start by deleting all cookies from our PC
Analyze site cookie usage in advance and draw up a test plan
Detailing what cookies to reject/accept for each function
How To Test Cookie ?
C.Corrupting Cookies
Altering the data in the persistent cookies
Allow the cookie to be modified
Selectively deleting cookies
How To Test Cookie ?
D.Cookies Encryption
By using encryption of thecookiedata
Sensitive information like usernames and passwords should been crypted before it is sent to our computer
A case can certainly be made that certain types of sensitive data – credit card numbers
How To Test Cookie ?
Check if the application is writing cookies properly or not.
Test to make sure that no personal or sensitive data is stored in the cookie.If it is there in cookies,it should be in encrypted format.
If the application undertest is a public website,there should not be overuse of cookies
Test Cases For Cookie Testing
Close all browsers,delete all previously written cookies and disable the cookies from our browser settings
Set browser options to prompt whenever cookie is being stored/saved in your system
Close all browsers windows and manually delete all cookies
Test Cases For Cookie Testing
Cookies shouldn't be put in the same category as the viruses,spam,or spyware
They are the tools to help us and manage our time more efficiently on the web
Testing should be done properly to check that website is working with different cookie setting
Test Cases For Cookie Testing
The time-out period assigned to the Session object for the application.
If the user does not refresh or request a page within the time-out period, the session ends.
Session Timeout
1 – Login into specific web application. 2 – Sleep that script for (some time) >
timing of one User session. 3 – Then perform some action on the page. 4 – Observe the response of that action. 5 – Application should show alert. If it is not
then probably session is not ending properly.
How to test the session timeout
JavaScript is an interpreted language.
A lightweight programming language.
Client side programming language.
Directly embedded into HTML page.
JavaScript
Web page doesn’t operate or work abnormally.
Tested websites:◦ Gmail◦ Youtube◦ Vnexpress◦ Facebook◦ Mediafire
Turn Off JavaScript
Turn off before loading:
Standard HTML:
Gmail
Turn off before loading:
YOUTUBE
Before turning off javascript:
After turning off javascript:
Vnexpress: unable to load dynamic images. Facebook: unable to use like and comment
functions. Mediafire:
◦ Loading before turning off :
◦ Turning off before loading : unable to load the web.
OTHER WEBSITES