Software testing user interface tutorials and videos

How To Test Web Forms for Usability?

Software Testing Magazine — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:42:41 +0000

It is rare to see a website without a form that you will use for contact or to register. The interaction on this type of web pages requires a lot of processing when you have to check the validity of the user input. This article explores the testing of web forms from the usability perspective. Author: Nataliia Syvynska, TestMatick, https://testmatick.com/ Concept of Web Forms A web form is a specific set of fields, lists and check-boxes. Its completion and submission could provide the users to full access to a particular functionality of the website or data, authorization to perform some operations or permission to leave personal information on this resource. Since some users can often interact with various types of forms, the convenience of filling out and submitting such forms is important for websites and for web testing. There are many approaches and methodologies on how to build feedback between the users and a web form when they fill it with information. If the fields are filled in incorrectly, a user should immediately receive a notification that mistakes have been made and information on how to correct them. Errors can be displayed to a client in two popular ways: Immediately after sending data (validation process after sending information); Instantly (built-in validation mechanism – when a focus has been lost on some part of a form). Validation after the process of sending data is very common, but from the technical point of view, it is not considered the most successful option. With this method of validation, a website user first fills out all the forms, then sends the information to a server [...]

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Painless UI Testing

Software Testing Magazine — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 12:44:23 +0000

Using patterns of yore (like Martin Fowler’s supervising controller, effective use of presenters and view model state), this presentation discusses the everyday really annoying impediments to user interface(UI) testing. You will learn what parts of the UI need testing and effective ways of testing them. If you could get your UI tests to run as fast as your unit tests – you would write more tests – you would feel happy writing the tests – your managers would be pleased with you not goofing around with that new testing framework around the corner Video producer: http://droidcon.nyc

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Testing Usability Early

Software Testing Magazine — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 09:01:41 +0000

Without a full user-centered process, performing a usability test at the end of the development process merely serves to highlight the unacceptable nature of the design. It’s a sad and frustrating result, but there is usually little that can be done except to release the poor design. Source: Institutionalization of UX, Eric Schaffer & Apala Lahiri, Addison-Wesley

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Selenium Automated UX Compliance Testing

Software Testing Magazine — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 20:48:14 +0000

With Selenium and Jenkins, you can extend Selenium processes to include screenshot comparisons, enabling automatic UX compliance at the speed of your Continuous Integration workflow. Learn how to compare screenshots from one Jenkins run to a repository of known quality, in order to insure that not only does your website work well, it also looks well. Video producer: http://www.seleniumconf.org/

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Using a Model Based Approach to Evaluate and Improve Mobile User Experience

Software Testing Magazine — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 15:38:46 +0000

2Q2U (Quality, Quality in use, actual Usability and User experience) is a specific model used to evaluate the quality of the User Experience (UX) of a mobile application. This article presents a way to use the model and step through the process of doing a real evaluation on the road to improving a mobile application’s usability and UX. Author, Philip Lew, Ph.D., CEO of XBOSoft, http://www.xbosoft.com/ In the first article of this series, A Model Based Approach To Evaluating and Improving Mobile User Experience, we discussed the special contexts of mobile software that required a model-based approach to evaluate mobile user experience. In the second article, we reviewed the ISO 25010 model and 2Q2U (Quality, Quality in use, actual Usability and User experience) and then instantiated them for the specific purpose of evaluating the User Experience (UX) of a mobile application. In this follow up article, we present a way to use the model and step through the process of doing a real evaluation on the road to improving a mobile application’s usability and UX. First, reviewing the relationships in ISO 25010 in Figure 1, we can see that the external quality has an influence on the final effect of the software product, namely the Quality in Use (QinU). Figure 1. ISO 25010 [1] quality views In previous research, we used the ISO 25010 as a starting point, and developed 2Q2U (Quality, Quality in use, actual Usability and User experience) v2.0 [2 and 3], to instantiate the quality characteristics to [...]

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Developing a Model to Evaluate and Improve Mobile User Experience

Software Testing Magazine — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:16:27 +0000

A Model Based Approach To Evaluating and Improving Mobile User Experience was the first article of Philip Lew that introduced the context that creates the need for a model-based approach to evaluate mobile user experience. This article presents the concepts of the ISO 25010 model and 2Q2U (Quality, Quality in use, actual Usability and User experience). Author, Philip Lew, Ph.D., CEO of XBOSoft, http://www.xbosoft.com/ In our previous article in this series, A Model Based Approach To Evaluating and Improving Mobile User Experience, we discussed the need for a model for evaluating and improving Mobile User eXperience (MUX). Before we dive into a model, let’s pose some questions that a model should help us to answer and solve: What do “horrible usability” and “better UX” mean? What is the relationship between Usability and UX? Are they synonyms? Evaluating the success rate of users completing tasks correctly. Is this the same as or directly related to UX? If users are highly effective in completing tasks but they mostly get unsatisfied, then does UX score still high? Does UX depend on application Usability only or also from other characteristics such as Functional and Information Quality, Security, Reliability, and Efficiency? Is UX a quality characteristic of the software itself or of an application in use? And what about Usability? ISO 25010 [1] provides a good starting point and as put forth in the standard, it is designed to be flexible depending on the needs and context of the organization. First, let’s cover some concepts [...]

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A Model Based Approach To Evaluate and Improve Mobile User Experience

Software Testing Magazine — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:14:29 +0000

With the increased importance of targeting mobile devices in the software development world, we need better tools to assess the quality of the user experience (UX) on these devices. This article introduces the context that creates the need for a model-based approach to evaluate mobile user experience so that different software, or versions of the same software, can be evaluated in a consistent way. Author, Philip Lew, Ph.D., CEO of XBOSoft, http://www.xbosoft.com/ User Experience (UX), a term that first appeared a decade ago, has become a sought after aspect of quality aspect in most modern day products. However, there still lacks a formal definition or standard for UX in contemporary research or in common practice. Some relate it with core usability aspects such as efficiency and effectiveness while others describe it in terms of subjective user needs such as user satisfaction and pleasure. Others call it the ‘wow factor’. With advent of smartphones and other mobile devices (such as tablets), users have quickly shifted from conventional desktops to highly sophisticated mobile and now wearable devices. Their enormous advantage of on-the-fly connectivity via Internet and flexibility has lead to rapid adoption of software applications on this platform. However “smart” and sophisticated these devices are, they do have challenges different from conventional applications (deployed/installed on desktops). For example, mobile smartphones usability is constrained by small sized screens (with low resolution) and keypads. With mobile applications, UX becomes even more complex due to the mobile’s natural characteristics, some of which include: Wide audience: [...]

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Android UI Automation

Software Testing Magazine — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 19:35:30 +0000

As Android gains popularity in the mobile world, application developers and OEM vendors are exploring ways to perform end-to-end UI driven testing of applications or entire platform. With a brief review of existing UI Automation solutions on Android, this talk introduces the recently released Android UI Automator framework, and continues to give an inside look of the framework, typical use cases and workflows. The uiautomator testing framework lets you test your user interface (UI) efficiently by creating automated functional UI testcases that can be run against your app on one or more devices. Slides: http://goo.gl/kpJCL Video producer: http://g.co/gtac2013

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