Please do not send anything to be QA’d that is not fit for purpose
Design
The build should look identical to the designs supplied:
- Check each design against the built page looking for any errors or inconsistencies.
- If there is mobile or tablet designs also check these against the build.
- The build should look identical to the designs unless otherwise agreed.
Browse through the website as a user would, checking for any errors or bugs.
- Browse everypage via navigations in the header and footer.
- If there is a search bar, search the website using terms like ‘the’ to get results, and jibberish like ‘ergferg’ to return no results.
- If there is any filters, forms, logins or any other widgets – use them to check the functionality, styling and any errors.
- Check to see if the website has a 404 error page.
All websites should be thoroughly tested on multiple browsers and devices, and by using Browserstack.
- Check the website on IE (back to IE10 unless agreed otherwise), Edge (latest version), Chrome (latest version), Firefox (latest version) and Safari (latest version).
- Check the website using the in-house tablets.
- Check the website using the in-house phones.
- Check website on desktop, scaling the browser down to check for sizes in-between device sizes. The website should look good at all sizes, and not break at any size whatsoever.
All code released by Gooey should be to a high standard, and semantic:
- Run each page through https://validator.w3.org/ and report any issues to the developer.
- Check the CSS has been concatenated and compressed.
- Check the JS has been concatenated and compressed.
- Check the source code of the website and report anything unusual or any inconsistencies.
- Check that images are being resized correctly and fit for purpose (i.e. optimised for size and speed).
- Check that the PHP files follow an indent standard.
- Check that the build includes the gulpfile.js, package.json and all original src files are included (.scss files etc).
With Google assigning more and more weight to website speed, it is important that each website we produce is optimised properly:
- Run each page through https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ and ensure the score for both desktop and mobile is ‘good’.
- Check for page loading times when navigating the site on desktop, tablet and mobile.
Login to the WordPress CMS and:
- Check that the CMS is client friendly, and you can create pages, posts easily.
- Create a test page and make sure this formats correctly on the frontend.
- Check what plugins have been installed, and advise to disable and delete any non-essential ones (i.e. clone posts, fakerpress).
- Check to see if all plugins listed here are installed.
- Check to see the user email address is not set to a @abitgooey.com address.
- Check to see that correct grammer and punctuation has been used on Post Types and Fields (i.e. faqs should be FAQs)
- Check that ‘Add New Plugins’ has been disabled for dev purposes (i.e. /wp-config.php should include define( ‘DISALLOW_FILE_MODS’, true );