usability
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Technical Documentation: Why So Technical? Testing documentation often fails to explain the context, why the product works the way it does, and how it can truly benefit the user. Testing documentation can be technical, yet relatable—it should also be approachable and resonate with its readers. |
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A Comprehensive Guide to Responsive Testing Responsive testing ensures websites look and function well across devices by testing layout, functionality, and performance on various screen sizes and browsers. It's crucial for consistent user experience, navigation, image display, and website robustness. Testing methods include browser developer tools, real devices, usability testing, and performance testing. Common challenges include outdated browsers, device-specific behaviors, and network speeds. AI, Machine Learning, and Real User Monitoring are emerging trends in responsive testing. |
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Taking Care of the User—Is Your Mobile App User-Friendly? All You Need to Know About Usability Testing Business owners and developers must keep in mind that modern users can be very picky and demanding, and they must do their best to meet all their users' expectations. The best way to solve this issue is to perform usability testing regularly. |
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How the Right Business Engagement Can Lead to Transformation “Happy Ever After” Winning the hearts and minds of users should be a priority of business transformation from day one. This way the people who really know the day-to-day running of the business have the opportunity to ensure that the new system will meet their and the organization’s requirements when it’s delivered. |
Better Software Magazine Articles
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Automation’s Role in the Fall of Software Testing Has the rise in test automation resulted in product releases of lesser quality? Besides adopting more comprehensive automated scripting, there are process and organizational dynamics to consider. |
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Incorporating User Experience into Early Agile Cycles Chris Nodder explores the emerging need to focus on a software app's user experience. It doesn’t have to cost a fortune to perform some basic user experience analysis as long as it is done early and tested throughout a project’s lifecycle. |
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Usability Testing with "CAN I USE THIS?" David introduces a unique approach for application usability testing. Each letter of the memorable "CAN I USE THIS?" will assist with test idea generation. |
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No One Left Behind: Make Time for Accessibility Testing Ten percent of the world's population lives with some sort of disability. So, is your software product optimized accessible to these people? Rajini Padmanaban takes a look at the different types of disabilities out there and the ways to ensure your product works well with as many of these needs as possible. |
Interviews
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Testing Based on Actual User Experiences: An Interview with Marjana Shammi
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In this interview, Marjana Shammi, the test lead at IceMobile, digs into a tester’s experience with user experience mapping. She explains the basics of experience mapping and tells how testers create great test ideas from that data. |
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STAREAST 2015 Interview with Parimala Hariprasad on Designing a Robust Test Strategy for Mobile Apps
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In this interview, Parimala Hariprasad discusses her presentations that cover user experience testing, how to create a test strategy for today's mobile apps, and how analytics and user reviews can facilitate the creation of a good test strategy that evolves over time. |
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Building Universal Apps for the Windows Platform: An Interview with Mike Benkovich
Podcast
In this interview, Mike Benkovich, the founder of Imagine Technologies, digs into his upcoming tutorial at the Mobile Dev + Test Conference, Building Universal Apps for the Windows Platform. He covers the advantages of the Windows platform, as well as the process of making an app universal. |
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Wearables and Contactless Technology: An Interview with David Meyer In this interview, David Meyer, who manages mobile banking product development at FIS, talks about his upcoming Mobile Dev + Test presentation. He discusses his relationship and experience with wearables and details the many facets of contactless payment applications. |
Conference Presentations
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Authoring an Accessibility Story
Slideshow
You'll learn character development techniques to build customer personas, strategies for plotting a "story" end to end, and tips for projecting potential obstacles. |
Elizabeth Langston
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Vulnerabilities and Bugs in Mobile Apps with Quick Tours
Slideshow
As mobile devices, tools, operating systems, and web technologies rapidly evolve, testers in this changing domain must quickly adapt their thinking. Testers often struggle to find critical vulnerabilities and bugs in mobile applications due to lack of guidance, experience, and the right... |
Raj Subramanian
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Use Business Analysts for User Interface Design
Slideshow
Have you experienced difficulties eliciting “what would you like the system to do” from customers and SMEs? Have you then delivered the system only to find that the users don’t like it, even though it meets their stated requirements exactly? Cathy Sargent shares a technique for using... |
Cathy Sargent
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Usability Testing Goes Mobile
Slideshow
The introduction of mobile devices and applications presents new challenges to traditional usability testing practices. Identifying the differences between usability testing techniques for traditional desktop applications and mobile applications is critical to ensuring their acceptance and... |
Susan Brockley, ExxonMobil
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