Website Quality Assurance

ReZolve's Quality Assurance  processes are used to ensure that a website is delivered to a level of excellence, independent from the design and development of the website. Our approach to QA is detailed below.

Website Quality Checklists

website quality assurance

Design

  • Check the draft website against the design concepts as per the specification signed off by the client.
  • Confirm that all elements are present and have been developed to the agreed specification. This also includes aspects such as font size, font style, spacing and colour scheme.

Navigation

  • Check navigation and user journey against the site map defined in the specification.
  • Check for accessibility is within the scope defined in the specification.

Content

  • Check all content specified is included in the website.
  • Check for obvious grammar and spelling errors and for instances of Lorem Ipsum placeholder text.
  • Check images are optimised for web, to ensure they’re not going to have a negative impact on page loading speeds.

Link Validation

  • Check for invalid links or links to draft URLs.
  • Include hyperlinks embedded in text, images and graphics, social media icons and logos and buttons.

 

Forms and Input Validation

  • Complete all input fields on the site, on areas such as contact form submissions, account setup and login and others.
  • Make sure that all fields are active and that ‘optional’ and ‘required’ fields show correct behaviour.
  • Check that any contact form enquiries are being sent, and delivered correctly to the correct email address.

Mobile & Other Devices

Check for design consistency and functionality on a wide range devices, including:

  • iPhone
  • iPad
  • Android
  • Desktop/Laptop screen sizes:
    • 1366×768
    • 1920×1080
    • 1280×800
    • 1024×768

Check latest versions of desktop browsers:

  • Google Chrome
  • Firefox
  • Edge
  • Safari

Check for:

  • Intrusive pop-ups
  • Phone numbers and email addresses
  • Buttons and icons are large enough to be clicked

 

eCommerce

These are the basic elements that we test for across all of our eCommerce builds:

  • Individual product pages have no errors or missing content
  • Shopping cart is updated upon increasing the quantity, editing the contents or making a purchase
  • Coupons and discounts are functioning as they should
  • There are no duplicated products and they’re displaying correctly
  • Filtering options are working correctly
  • Shipping costs are being calculated correctly, based on region and tax rates
  • Notification emails are being triggered and received as specified

Test all payment gateway options are working using sandbox and/or test accounts.

  • Credit Card (Stripe)
  • PayPal

 

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

Ensure basic SEO task are complete:

  • Check 'Hide from search engines' is not ticked
  • Register site with Google, Bing and other search engines
  • Create Google Analytics account and test
  • Add site to Webmaster Tools

We will typically provide basic initial SEO for all content using the Yoast plugin:

  • Check and improve each each page to achieve an SEO rank of at least Amber, ideally green
  • Keystone pages must achieve an SEO rank of Green
  • Any pages with an SEO rank of Red are not critical pages for SEO (e.g. Privacy Policy)