Check out these books about web server testing

Testing Applications on the Web: Test Planning for Internet-Based Systems" by Hung Quoc Nguyen

Written by a true authority in the field, Hung Q. Nguyen's Testing Applications on the Web is a nicely comprehensive guide to virtually every conceivable aspect of software testing. It's filled with must-have background information for any test engineer or manager who's testing thin-client systems.

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Topics covered:

• Introduction to Web testing
• Gray-box testing fundamentals
• Traditional vs. Web testing
• History of computing architectures
• Thick and thin clients
• Survey of 24 software-testing types, including acceptance tests, load/volume testing, regression, and user-interface testing
• Networking basics, including TCP/IP fundamentals, DNS, and network architectures
• Web components for thin-client systems
• Test partitioning
• Guide to test planning
• Templates and sample documents
• Testing case study
• User-interface tests for browsers (design and implementation tests)
• Functional tests, including FASTs (functional acceptance simple tests), TOFTs (task-oriented functional tests), and FETs (forced error tests)
• Database testing (white-box and black-box techniques)
• SQL tutorial
• Testing help systems
• Installation tests, including uninstall tests and tools
• Configuration and compatibility testing (testing on multiple browsers)
• Web security (security attacks and encryption basics)
• Performance, Load and stress testing
• Survey of testing tools

"The Web Testing Handbook" by Steven Splaine, Stefan P. Jaskiel, Alberto Savoia

The Web Testing Handbook is the definitive resource for testing Web sites and Internet-based applications. Many developers and testers are making the transition from traditional Client/Server, PC, and/or Mainframe systems to testing rapidly changing Web sites and applications.

The Web Testing Handbook can help make this transition easier by explaining these new technologies and suggesting test cases and techniques that can be included in a Web site's Functional, Performance, Compatibility, and Usability test plans.

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ISBN: 0970436300