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WEB TESTING is an essential element of quality assurance. A true test of how people actually use a website (technical part). It’s extremely cheap when you do it yourself

When to test?

• at the web site’s conception (start by testing a printed mock up of the home page)
• before planning a redevelopment
• repeatedly during (re)development, as critical pages or sections are prepared
• when traffic analysis shows an anomaly (inconsistency)
• when the owner requires hard information about a page or site.

What and Why we test? - Know what you hope to discover each time you test.

With all tests you want to discover whether the user:

• gets the point of the page(s)
• understands the navigation system
• can guess where to find things.

In a general test you want to know:

• how do users interact with the web site you are testing?
• what is difficult for people to do?
• where do they get lost?
• what makes sense to them?
• what makes them feel distrustful or insecure?
• what do they like and what do they hate?

In a specific test you might want to know, for example:

• can the user accomplish a key task?
• can the user find something specific?

WEB EVALUATION is to ensure the functionality and performance of a website for user acceptance. The evaluation is depends on the goals of the website and the stage of a project; ideas and concepts, designs, prototypes, implementations and products in use. By doing this, we can identify the problem and improve the development of the website.

There are two level of web evaluation; formative evaluation focus on improvement and it is an ongoing process and summative evaluation focus on the outcome at the end of project phase. Tools used for website evaluation are observation, interviews, survey, report, dialogs with users…

after this class we need to create our own questionnaire for individual assignment.. after that, we will combine that assignment to make it as group evaluation.. so, don't forget to make it..
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