Wednesday, March 31, 2010

WEB TEST vs WEB EVALUATION

HI all..in this post i will explain about web test vs web evaluation..


Differences between web testing & web evaluation

WEB-testing

1. Self-testing (alpha testing)

- Test the produt no the final version

- Dos not have necessarily contain the full functionality

2. Group-testing (beta testing)

- Give to somebody else

3. Also known as Alpha (1st phase, not complete yet, test among group) /Beta testing (test among outside people)

- Finding error

- More focus on technical

- What to test?

o Looking for error

o Functionality

§ Page display

§ Image display

§ Navigation element

§ Interactive and dynamic elements

§ Internal links

§ External links

o Usability

o interface – whether it works in difference computrt (color depth, resolution)

- How to test? (techniques/Tools)

o Test in difference web browser

o Ask a friend (peer testing)

o Ask a group of people (group testing)

o Make a questionnaire and interview user

- Test plan- usng structured testing method,a creative software/website tester can find a potentially serious problem then give programmers helpful feedback and clues for fix it.

- Catogerize errors & defect according to 1 or three types of problem:

o Design flaws – eg: text cannot be read, missing column, button

o Content error –eg: photo image quality text misspellings

o Software/system defect-eg: technical problem encaountered when trying to run / operate the site

- Type of testing:

o Functionality

o Layout testing

o Load testing

o Link testing

o Usability testing (Jacod Nielsen) (most important)

WEB-evaluation

- Measuring something (outcome)

- More focus on non-technical

- - evaluating websites means determining whether or not they are good

- Why we need to evaluate?

o Ensure functionality

o Ensure performance

- Level of web-evaluation

o Formative (during the evaluation)

o Summative (in the end, give someone else)

- Tools for evaluation:

o Interview, Observation(Structured/Non structured)

o Questionnaire/survey, focus group, analysis, report and dialogue with user

o Ask expert

o Form,checklist or rubric

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