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Web applications undergo the same [[Unit testing|unit]], [[Integration testing|integration]] and [[system testing]] as traditional desktop applications. It has the same goals, which involve: 1) the determination that the application is working correctly; and, 2) the identification of errors that need correction. The testing process of web applications, however, has some special characteristics, making it a little different from a test used for a software. These include the fact that web applications tend to have a great deal of information that could contain mistakes, omissions, incorrect labels, redundancy, and so on.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Web Based Application Development|last=Grove|first=Ralph|publisher=Jones & Bartlett Learning|year=2009|isbn=0763759406|___location=Boston|pages=218}}</ref> They can also entail multiple layers of web applications and multiple, dynamic configurations.<ref name=":1" /> Testing and finding errors, therefore, involves more complex process such as the inclusion of operational analysis for each layer or configuration.
 
It is also important to note that webWeb application clients vary so greatly, hence, teams might perform some additional testing, such as:
 
* Security