Scope of Website Testing

Drake Moore      – Raleigh, NC
123Triad: Web Design & SEO Company

Scope of Website Testing

In the course of one Software Development Cycle, the software before its full-blown implementation has to go through several walk-through. A walk-through here is a usability evaluation method, much like what’s being done to test a website. The only difference is the parameters being used in testing. Both works to achieve the same goal and that is to function according to its specifications.  

Website Testing basically covers three major areas :

Testing Web Pages – This functionality testing ensures the  adherence of your HTML code to industry standards. The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) is the international organization that maintains the coding standards for HTML, XHTML, CSS and other Web scripting languages. The validation of either HTML or CSS doesn’t assure one of an errorless and efficient code; however, errors in Web page code can make the browsers slow down the rendering of the page. Also, designing the website for search optimization would include validating its source code to be readable by search engine spiders. Visually testing the website includes checking the flexibility of the web design in coping with different window sizes and varying font sizes, bad broken links, and spelling errors.

Internet connection speed -  Most web developers  commonly overlook that not all have  broadband access, in fact, a lot of home users still run via a modem.  Compounding to the problem is the common page weight problem of web pages. A 200k page weight, which is the combined size in bytes for all HTML, JavaScript, CSS and images of a specific web page, will create a performance havoc to the user. A website design to be considered usable, meaning to display its page in ten seconds or less on a 56k dial-up connection must have a page weight below 60,000 bytes (60k). Professional Quality Assurance Web Testers believed that the right web site testing environment consists of using an old PC with a 56k dial-up modem connection to obtain the right performance from a customer’s perspective.

Browser Compatibilities – The Internet now is bombarded with several breakthroughs and current technologies. One of these is in the selection of browsers that your customers use. A good source would be the server records or logs that your web hosting company is producing. Also, there are online testing services that provide the simulations of various browser renderings.

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