Mashups - a QA perspective

Much before the advent of digital data, man grappled with the problem of storage, retrieval and representation of data. It is in this context that Mashups have gained prominence.

Testing mashup products—especially platforms—needs an expertise one would expect in a technologically intensive product. Add to this, the ability to think ahead and predict use cases for the product is important for QA to be relevant in the rapidly growing mashup space.

This white paper discusses key considerations and challenges of testing mashups. It starts off by highlighting the growing significance of mashups in consumer and enterprise space. Testing mashups needs special attention due to their unique characteristics.

Functional testing of mashups needs to keep pace with the dynamic nature of mashups. The paper also suggests ways to perform mashup interoperability testing and automation testing from a functional and performance standpoint.