Quote Originally Posted by sivaraj View Post
Hi,

What are the things to be tested in a website under Functional Testing.

And what are the testings done in Usability Testing.

For Example: Lets take a website where only registered user can login & can have his contact information(Address book) in a secured manner, And can send messages to Registered persons. Similar to "Orkut".

Then what are the functional & usability testings done here.

Please help me.........

Thanks,
P.Sivaraj.
Hi shivaraj,

Functional testing always see the functional behavior.If you have done the testing of a web site at unit level, you will see what you have , you have only controls and developers have implemented the functions at back hand.So, what you will do at that time is functional testing (I am not talking about white box testing).

When these controls get integrated with error messages and design, other then functionality you see look and feel and appropriate error messages and tool tips (user friendliness), this is usability testing.

Now as per your example:-
For Example: Lets take a website where only registered user can login & can have his contact information(Address book) in a secured manner, And can send messages to Registered persons. Similar to "Orkut".

Then what are the functional & usability testings done here.

Only registered user can login this is functionality testing.
If user fill wrong user name or password, he get a error message , this is usability testing.

Hope, It's enough.