What is Usability testing in web testing?

Designers should always remember that the experience of the user in their website must
be as pleasant as possible. How the user interacts with the website is very important.
There may be cases when the user is someone very familiar with website browsing but
not necessarily a testing expert.
There are standards and guidelines for tests for usability. However, designers and/or
project managers should not rely on them too much since complying with these standards
doesn’t necessarily ensure that the site will meet the needs of the users, their tasks and
their work environments. Design guidelines must be set and they must be measurable so
that they can be easily incorporated into the tests.

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srinivasulub1981

  • Mar 11th, 2009
 

While doing usability testing of a web application:

> Font of the fields
-> Color of the validation messages and fields
->?Mandatory fields should be in BOLD
-> Alignment of the fields
-> Showing the Next/previous link in a data grid if application count reaches 10
-> Navigational link
-> All pages should have a heading in a consistent way
->?User?friendly validation messages?in each and every operation

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ashishks

  • Aug 27th, 2009
 

We should test the following things while usabilit testing:
1. Tabbing
2. Color
3. Ordering of elements
4. Consistency
5. Navigation colors
6. Manadatory fields
7. Size, shape and arrangements of Iframe, panel, tables, text boxes, radio button etc.
8. Font type, font size and font color of text
9. Selection, de-selection
10. Presentation of elements on the web page. etc..

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kurtz182

  • Nov 30th, 2009
 

Usability testing is typically performed by representative users of an application.  In a usability test, users try to perform typical tasks while company stakeholders  (project manager, marketing, development staff) observe and take notes.  Usability testing strives to answer the following questions:

1) Are there any drawbacks to using the application? 
2) How intuitive is the application?
3) Will users prefer to use this application over alternative methods?

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Bina Sarmah

  • Nov 18th, 2011
 

1. Test for navigation: Web site should be easy to use. Instructions should be provided clearly.
Main menu should be provided on each page. It should be consistent.
2. Content checking: Content should be meaningful. All the anchor text links should be working properly. Images should be placed properly with proper sizes. If your password is wrong, there should be a pop up window which will mention 'incorrect password' or something like that.
3. Other user information for user help: Like search option, sitemap, help files etc. S

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mfsi_chinmayb

  • Apr 16th, 2012
 

Usability testing is a technique used in user-centered interaction design to evaluate a product by testing it on users. This can be seen as an irreplaceable usability practice, since it gives direct input on how real users use the system.[1] This is in contrast with usability inspection methods where experts use different methods to evaluate a user interface without involving users

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