Quality Assurance Testing
Quality assurance testing is a very important development phase that, if executed poorly, can undermine all the effort and expense that went into an otherwise stellar project. A proper testing plan is more than having developers go through the course a few times shortly before delivery.
NETBUGGER - coming soon
NETBUGGER is a web-based issue-tracking
and collaboration tool fine-tuned for e-learning development. NETBUGGER
allows you to track
any problem; technical, content-related or otherwise. Problems can
be categorized, prioritized and individually discussed among team
members and clients, who, of course, can be assigned varying degrees of access.
Developers resolving problems reported with NETBUGGER will love the
technical information NETBUGGER automatically collects and its extensive
sorting, prioritizing and assignment capabilities. The tool is a fully
web-based, zero-install hosted service; so it is accessible from anywhere with an internet connection.
NETBUGGER will initially support web-based projects with support for
Authorware, Flash, and access from within Dreamweaver, FrontPage,
Visual Interdev, Powerpoint and Word following later.
A JBE Services testing plan involves:
- planning time for testing at many points throughout development
- anticipating potential style and consistency issues beforehand and defining them clearly
- creating a detailed test script that details what is and is not to be tested
- having different people perform testing, because each will catch different things
- creating detailed, yet concise reports of problems found that developers can use to quickly locate and change problems
Outsourcing your testing to JBE Services makes a great deal of sense for a number of reasons:
- Your developers are freed up to spend more time developing
- Testing can occur concurrently with development, shortening your development cycle
- Outside testers, not involved in development, more closely approximate actual users by not being familiar with the product or content
- We use detailed testing scripts (ours or yours) that outline exactly what is to be tested and where
- Our web-based problem reporting tool, NETBUGGER (to be released soon - see sidebar) provides comprehensive data and sorting ability to allow your developers to quickly pinpoint and correct problems, as well as efficiently manage the list of problems
- If we are brought in early enough, we can help you develop a plan to catch problems earlier in the development cycle, and a style guide to reduce or eliminate style and consistency problems altogether
