Why testing invests in your website success

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Why testing invests in your website success?
Dana Zhezdrina QATestLab Program Manager
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About me
8-year experience in testing
3-year experience in program management
Finished Executive Development Program "Project
management for creative teams. Agile in actions"
in Kiev Business School
Fond of dogs and dont like bugs )
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A website as a business card
For companies to attract more potential customers
and broaden business connections, a reliable and
secure website with proper functionality is a
must. Testing activities help to ensure a high
quality of the website.
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Why to test a website?
Website testing helps to ensure the sales
increase by improving interaction between a
website and its visitors, high performance
capacities, and strong protection system. Proper
functionality and high usability lead to visitors
coming back to a website again and again.
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The hard thing about improper testing
A superficial testing before website launch is a
highway to the product failure because it will
not detect functional and layout issues in
different web browsers, operating systems, and
screen resolutions used by the visitors. Only
detailed and complex testing will discover bugs
and ensure a positive user experience.
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Thorough testing by proper people
Testing conducted by a development team may be
unobjective and may not reflect the actual
quality of a website. In digital agencies,
managers perform internal website testing in a
rash and overtiming, thus, they provide a limited
test coverage. Having necessary skills and
testing means, a QA team ensures a wide test
coverage and improve the website quality.
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When to test a website?
Depending on the size of a website, a QA team can
perform complete testing of a ready website or
conduct the quality verification page by
page. In order to reduce the possibility of bug
detection by site visitors, website testing
should include checking in both testing and live
/ production environments.
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Things required before testing
To ensure a thorough testing, its important to
provide a QA team with testing goals, requirement
specifications, mockups, description of the
website structure, access to testing and
production environments, if any. A QA team forms
the list of web browsers and devices necessary
for testing, either basing on the customers
requirements, or by themselves, making research
into target audience.
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• What does website testing include?
• Functional testing
• CMS verification
• User interface testing
• Layout verification
• Cross-browser testing
• Usability checking
• Performance testing
• Security testing

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Website testing functionality verification
Basing on specification and other documentation
on expected website functionality, a QA team
verifies input forms, links, cookies sessions,
HTML and CSS, order processing for online shops
to ensure a smooth interaction with a website. A
QA team can also test the integration of HTML
templates with a CMS (Content Management System)
to assist in ensuring proper publication and
displaying of content on the website.
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Website testing user interface verification
On the basis of available project specifications,
a QA team performs user interface testing to
ensure a smooth and convenient interaction
between a website and its visitor due to properly
responding controls, e.g, menu bars and buttons.
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Website testing layout verification
Basing on mockups provided by a customer, a QA
team verifies the website layouts - testers
compare the ready design of a website with the
available mockups using appropriate tools, for
example, Photoshop.
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Website testing cross-browser verification
In order to verify the website compatibility, a
QA team checks the website operability in various
web browsers including their different types and
versions. Besides, a website is tested in mobile
web browsers.
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Website testing usability verification
By verifying website usability, a QA team makes
sure that a website is user-friendly and
convenient for visitors. High usability level
of a website attracts the bigger number of
visitors.
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Website testing performance verification
To check website reliability, a QA team verifies
the website operability under high loads. Using
different tools, testers verify page loading
speed. Performance testing also includes checking
of a website at different Internet connection
speeds and site behavior during peak loads and
after crashes.
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Website testing security verification
Conducting security testing, a QA team identifies
potential areas in security mechanisms that can
be used by hackers to gain unauthorised
access. Testers imitate hackers actions to
detect security lapses.
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Test results in a suitable form

• After website testing, a QA team provides a
  customer with the following test documentation
• bug reports
• test summary report
• feature requests
• results of checklist and test case execution
• prioritization of bugs according to their
  severity
• recommendations on improvement

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Website testing is called to improve the overall
user experience, to guarantee a proper
functioning in line with the requirements and
specifications, to verify the website security
level, and to ensure its compatibility with
different OS and web browsers. All the mentioned
above points lead to sales increase and high
traffic generation.
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Contacts
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