I thought I would share this small piece of advice. It might be obvious to a lot of people but is not always apparent or sometimes we forget or even run out of time to pay enough attention to it.
The advice is simply this:
When you report a bug or issue and the developer tells you [...]
As a website is being built, the step of writing or putting together a test plan is often skipped entirely and testing just ‘begins’. If a test plan is done then it is often completed immediately prior to testing and completed too quickly.
This ad hoc approach to testing means that it is possible to miss [...]
Testing Web Forms
Forms can be one of the most common areas for problems on a newly launched web site. It can often be the case where a web site visitor takes the time to fill in a form, perhaps to enter a competition or make an enquiry to your company, they submit it and [...]
It can be pretty daunting before you set out to test a web site because it is important to get it right and to have a smooth launch with no bitter aftertaste of experiencing bugs once the web site is live.
This short guide will hopefully give you an idea of where to start so you [...]
It is often said that no web project is the same and when applied to the testing of web sites the truth remains.
With respect to the above statement, I have put a general testing process together that I normally look to follow, which looks something like this:
Plan testing at the start of the project – [...]
How frustrating is it when you are browsing the web and you hit an error or a problem on a web site?
You might be searching for something in particular and you a click on a link and find a ‘Page not found’ message or you want to buy a product and you hit ‘Buy now’ [...]