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Accessibility Testing
It’s about making your mobile app or website easier to use for all kinds of people. It’s about making sure that mobile apps or websites are easy to use for people with disabilities, such as vision impairment, hearing impairment, and other physical or cognitive conditions.
It is a very important aspect of usability testing.
Accessibility testing can be automated with software tools or performed manually by human testers. A hybrid approach using both automated testing tools and manual methodologies often provides the most useful evaluation. On a website, for example, criteria such as optimisation of pages for screen readers would be evaluated, and pages would be marked with:
- Inadequate color contrast
- Poor use of white space
- Lack of alternative text
- Lack of video transcripts
- High levels of readability
These flags are crucial as they determine usability if they are all met. Organizations are increasingly realizing that meeting digital accessibility standards is an opportunity to grow their business, show where they stand from an ethical perspective, and outshine the competition.
Automation Testing
Automation testing is a software testing technique useful for examining and comparing the actual result with the expected result. In simpler terms, it is a sequence that legalises whether a software meets all requirements before it is produced. Testers write test scripts and automate them using a test automation tool, for example Selenium and TestComplete, which are open source testing tools.
Now that we know briefly what Test Automation is, let’s jump straight into some of its common positive aspects:
- Faster Time to Market: reduces the feedback and test cycle and allows companies to bring their products to market faster.
- Saves time: departments can easily check automated test records and see what is happening.
- Reduced business expenses: by using an automated testing environment, your company will save money as fewer resources are spent on testing your product.
- Increased accuracy: Automated tests can run tests with 100 percent accuracy, as they produce the same result every time they are run.
- Elimination of human error: You can still make mistakes, even with test automation. However, the error rate is significantly lower when you use test automation for your test suite.
Agile testing
Agile testing is a software development practice that influences frequent, automated testing of new code as it is completed and stipulates that defects must be corrected as soon as they are detected.
In agile testing, testing is performed continuously as features are added and testers perform as many tests as they can in an iteration, adding automated testing tools to help testers perform more tests.
What do Agile Testers do:
- Quality assurance is everyone’s responsibility in the agile methodology, which forces testers and developers to work together.
- Agile testers should only test and developers write code.
- They know what has been tested and what defects remain to be resolved.
Here are some examples of Agile Testing:
- Session-based Testing – where tests are performed in different segments.
- Test Driven Development – implementing software programming that interleaves unit tests.
- Acceptance Test Driven Development – developers, testers and business representatives come together to define requirements, identify potential roadblocks and reduce the possibility of bugs before programming begins.
- Behaviour- based Development– provides built-in quality by defining (and potentially automating) tests before, or as part of the behavior of the specifying system.
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