It is very important and necessary to test your website or application before you publish it to the web or internet. Why? The answer is very simple. Just think if you find some mistakes after publishing it, what’s the effect and impression it will be on users? It is not hard to predict. More important, as a professional website developer, such simple mistakes surely should be avoided.
There are many different kinds of testing according to the levels and stages your website is considered.
Self-testing and Group-testing:
The first phase of testing is the self-test to ensure the functionality of the following features and elements:
Page display
Image display
Navigation elements
Interactive & dynamic elements
Internal links
External links
Group-testing involves recruiting a small group of people representative of your audience to test your website. They could give you better ideas of how your audience will respond to your website. You can ask the individuals to express their candid opinions about their experience: Ask questions such as:
Did they find the website interesting and easy to use.
What helped or hampered navigation
What kind of problems and obstacles do they face
What could improve the website
What should be added or deleted
Alpha vs Beta Testing
when it is done by the development team it is called alpha testing and when by the client side people it is called beta testing.
Alpha Testing: Testing a software/website product which is not the final version. This website does not have to necessarily contain the full functionality required for a website however core functionality to accept input an generate output is required.
Beta Testing: Beta Testing is last stage of testing where a product is sent outside the company or offer the product for free trial download/use.
Types of Errors
When we test our website, we should have a clear purpose and goal. What should we test? What parts should we focus on? There are usually three kinds of errors which need us to pay attention to. They are:
1 design flaws
2. content errors
3. Software/system defects
Types of Testing
Several kinds of testing are appropriate for websites, including the following:
functionality
layout testing
load testing
link testing
usability testing
At last, no matter what kinds of testing you choose to use for your website, a test plan is usually needed, especially for a complicated website.
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