Real Web Project Management: Case Studies and Best Practices from the Trenches

What Does QA Test For?

If your QA department is like most in the Web development industry, they will join the process toward the end of the project build, and they will be testing for bugs or defects in some or all of the following areas.

• Usability

• Browser and OS compatibility

• Functionality

• Internal standards

• Performance/load handling

• Content

• Security

Usability

Usability bugs are the types of defects that tend to impact the user experience from a navigation perspective. Usability issues include hard-to-use or -find links and navigation menus, unclear site flow, and confusing or difficult tool, page, or form interfaces. Usability is a fast-growing discipline in the Web development industry and should be taken seriously by any professional Web development ...