| As the scale and complexity of Web applications increases immensely along with the development of Internet, there is a growing concern about their quality and reliability. But It is an increasingly urgent problem that how to test the Web applications. Existing test theories and test tools can't fully meet the need of current software developing process. So, exploiting effectively testing technique and test tool for Web applications become a hotspot of software testing area.There are many particularities and difficulties in the testing of web applications as to traditional application, such as the difficulty that the load can not foresee, the design of testing scene is difficult, and the difference of testing condition and real condition.Traditional software testing purpose, method, phase and solution have been summarized in this paper, combined with the characteristic of Web applications, software testing content and method based on Web applications have been summarized,namely Web application has been tested in many aspects, i.e. |