Planning the Testing Phase

You should now have a good roadmap for the development of your project, in the form of your specifications and milestones documents (see the previous section). Next, you should put together a similar type of roadmap for the testing phase. No matter how great a coder you are, your application is bound to have at least one bug the first time around. It’s important that you and your client expect and leave time for some type of beta or testing phase.

Who Can Help with QA?

Somebody should be assigned the job of overseeing quality assurance (QA) for your application. In other words, someone should put the application through its paces to ensure that everything works as intended. Do all the links work? What if certain form ...

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