TESTING PLAN

Testing plan



A Test Plan for a Website

Web Testing Best Practices

In light of the challenges described in the prior section, there are solutions and best practices that many in the testing field have published in various forums. While performing a literature search for best practices regarding website testing, many documents that were found were papers, similar to this research paper, describing best practices for website testing. By taking the most critical or best practices from these many sources, it is the author's goal to provide a collection of the very best of these best practices. This is not necessarily a complete end-to-end methodology, but a collection of additions that can be made to a methodology that may already be in place. The best practices will be divided into two main sections, “Specific Testing Areas” and “Best Processes.” The first section will discuss specific types of tests and best practices, where the second will discuss specific processes for certain areas of testing.

Specific Testing Areas

These are specific testing areas that require special attention regarding website testing. There are many areas of web testing that are presented in this research paper, and equally many not presented. The author, based on his experience, chose the tests that are presented as either the most important types of tests, or the ones that are not executed as much as they should be.

Content Checking

Once the web page has been loaded, it has to be tested for accuracy, completeness, consistency, spelling and accessibility. These terms have the traditional meanings, and the tests are as elementary as they sound. However, it is in areas like these where the site is first judged by the website visitor. For example, if the site has numerous misspellings, the product that the website is offering may come into question as the visitor may feel that if the attention to detail is not given to the site, it may not be given to the product either. These tests are mentioned in this research paper as these are simple things that may not automatically be on a web tester's test plan, as most of these are unique to the web (Gerrard, 2000b).

Browser Syntax Compatibility

This test is one level below the actual content. It is the technology of how to represent the content, whether that content consists of text, graphics, or other web objects. This is an important test as it determines whether or not ...