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04/10/2002 Entry: "10-April-2002 -- Testing Your Web Application: A Quick 10-Step Guide"

Testing Your Web Application: A Quick 10-Step Guide -- "Interested in a quick checklist for testing a web application? The following 10 steps cover the most critical items that I have found important in making sure a web application is ready to be deployed. Depending on size, complexity, and corporate policies, modify the following steps to meet your specific testing needs."

Replies: 5 comments

This would've been a good primer article if the steps weren't presented in the order they were. Thinking about usability after you've set up your test environment, begun logging and fixing SIRS, unit tested and validated your HTML is ludicrous. Usability should be thought about during step 1 and tested all along the way.

I mean, how usable is a web application going to be with usability not taken into consideration until step 7?

Posted by Shane @ 04/11/2002 11:35 AM EST

I would agree that usability testing is critical. However, the steps in this article were never intended to be hard and fast rules. Many of the steps can be performed in a different order or in parallel.

Posted by Krishen @ 04/11/2002 08:05 PM EST

I would agree that usability testing is critical. However, the steps in this article were never intended to be hard and fast rules. Many of the steps can be performed in a different order or in parallel.

Posted by Krishen @ 04/11/2002 08:05 PM EST

Yeah, I was always the kid who would pick the frosting off the Dolly Madison Zinger and eat it first, then suck the cream filling out, and throw away the cake, unless I had enough Chocolate Milk to make it go down.

Damn, here is my mind this morning?

Posted by Jack Schonchin @ 04/12/2002 09:30 AM EST

Damn typos. Where is my mind this morning?

Posted by Jack Schonchin @ 04/12/2002 09:32 AM EST

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