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A&M Review Presents
A Basic Guide to Website Quality Assurance!
Losses from defective software cost the American economy over a half a percent
of the total gross national product in 2005. The real tragedy is that much of
that cost could have been avoided with adequate software testing.
With that in mind, Advertising & Marketing Review has launched this QA section to
help you understand what it takes to launch a successful Website.
The information presented here is a result of over 15 years experience working on or
leading QA projects at Apple, Adobe, Yahoo, WebMD, SAP, Inktomi, and Ariba.
Tools
Test Data here are files of comma delimited names and addresses in quantities of 100, 1000 and 10,000.
Test Data Generator v 1.0 - Here's a tool I've programmed to generate names and addresses to test data bases. Just type in how many records you want (Max 100,000), select a few options, and hit the Create button.
Documentation
Here's a basic QA process, with supporting documentation:
Many Websites turn into a disaster because no one ever documented exactly what
the Website was supposed to do. You can make sure that doesn't happen by reviewing
your Website requirements document and bringing it up to industry standards.
For more information on this subject read:
QA and the Software Development Life Cycle
A Process For Quality
Writing Product Requirement Documents
How the CMMI Process Improves Website Development
Using Scrum & Sprint in Website Project Management
CMMI Levels
Create a test plan based on the Website requirements document that guarantees
all features are adequately tested in the most cost effective manner.
For more information on this subject read:
Software Quality Assurance Test Plan Example
Create test cases based on the test plan that specify, mouse click by
mouse click, exactly how the tests are to be executed. This level of detail not
only assures quality, it makes it easy to outsource testing to low cost
offshore testing teams for exhaustive and affordable testing.
For more information on this subject read:
Test Case Formats
Writing Thorough Test Cases
Writing Repeatable Test Cases
Writing Multi-part Test Cases
There a number of open source automation test tools that allow to record and execute step by step
test case instructions. These automated tests will greatly increase the number of different tests you
can execute in a given time period.
For more information on this subject read:
Automated Website Testing
Find, document and report defects to engineering.
Repeat the Process Until the Website is ready to go live.
For more information on this subject read:
User Acceptance Testing Can Improve Your Website's
Chances
When you finish the testing cycle and give your Website the green light,
you'll know your Website will perform as required, and your investment, and your
reputation is safe.
For more information on Website QA read:
Preparing for Security Breaches
Saving Motion, Time and Your Business
How to Deal With Engineers
Overcoming Objections of Engineers to Fixing Defects
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