Cross Browser Testing Clarified
Mostly unnecessary now. If so, there is a much simpler and cheaper way to do it.
This article is one of the “IT Terminology Clarified” series.
Cross-Browser Testing (CBT) is to verify the web app in different browsers. Many software companies conducted CBT in some forms around 2014, as there was no absolute dominant (> 60%) browser at that time. And we know that Microsoft Internet Explorer does not confirm the W3C standard strictly.
To reach a maximum customer base, software companies need to spend quite some effort supporting all browsers, IE in particular.
I remembered an Australian web site charged the client $10 more for using IE in order to justify the extra effort to make its web app behave correctly in IE.
For this reason, Cross Browser Testing has gradually been included in software testing though it has been done quite poorly.
Cross Browser Testing is largely unnecessary now
Currently, the situation is different as Google Chrome dominates the desktop browser market; Microsoft…
