Today I’ve been doing some testing. Running through one of the sites we’ve been working on. Was really initially meant to be testing the layout in IE6, but due to my slightly pedantic nature I’m pretty much running through a lot of the functionality and logging the rather numerous, if minor, bugs. There aren’t that many IE6 issues anyway.

Testing is actually something we’re normally quite bad at doing right. It always gets scheduled in at the start, but as a project goes along, and things take longer than expected – especially the development work, the time for testing gets shrunk. It is a really essential step though. It’s hard to view something you’ve been working on objectively. You know where to click and what button takes you where, so you never get lost in a site, and unless there is an error, your expectations are always fulfilled. So, you require an outsiders eye. Someone who has absolutely no idea what’s going on (Okay, that’s a slight exaggeration).

Anyway – there is lots to check and fix. Fingers crossed for the deadline on Monday!

Tags: design, interface, process, testing, user experience