Mobile apps are trending now but that in no way has dipped down the quality of desktop apps. Innumerable users even today interact with desktops apps on a daily basis and certainly expect high quality apps. There’s no compromise with the quality, so be assured that desktop testing is done to the utmost satisfaction in order to provide a smooth interaction. There is a not-to-forget list while you perform desktop testing. Read on..
Let’s go one by one..
GUI, The Graphical User Interface Testing – Well-designed graphical user interfaces can free the user from learning complex command languages. On the other hand, many users find that they work more effectively with a command-driven interface, especially if they already know the command language.
- Make sure the content and the words used in the web page are correct
- The wrap-around needs to flow smoothly
- Keep a check on the app’s instructions – they should be precisely sharp
- Doubly check if your pictures/graphics are displayed in accordance with the content
Next, let us consider Functional Testing – this testing is more important because it always verifies that your system is fixed for release. Hence requires a lot of time, attention and dedication.
- Broken links bring down the quality of an app, get rid of them for smooth functioning
- Check the format/manner of your warning messages. Are they being displayed in a proper business-oriented way?
- It is very certain; resolutions have a huge impact on the app’s performance. Make sure your project is responding properly to various resolution changes
- Verify the next print relating things: watch how it behaves when the printer is both connected and unattached; test the prints functionality; check whether the app is giving an error message when the printer is broken or has no paper, etc; double check the print layout of rather long event descriptions, etc
- Users are fond of trying different themes, make sure your app works great even when the user fiddles with different themes
- Ensure that the app installation process is streamlined, check if the app is installed at the right path, if older versions can be overlapped easily with the new ones, is it is easily accessible etc
- Try and be a user yourself, create multiple user accounts with few access and play around your app. Get the user’s mindset feel. Verify if the app is launching and functioning on new user accounts, try and analyse how it responds if you switch accounts or if two or more users are using the same account
- Sleep Mode test – put the system to sleep, while your app is running, after a while check again if the app is still in running mode and there are no errors that may have occurred while the system was put to sleep.
- Finally, check if the app is running smooth even after you delete its cache both when the app was running and not.
Thirdly, Compatibility testing – it is one of the software tests that ensure complete customer satisfaction. Compatibility testing is a non-functional test to ensure that an application operates or performs as expected for all the intended customers.
- Since we all know the fact that not every app works in a similar fashion with the same ease on different systems, test the app on various OS of your choice
And finally, Performance testing – Performance testing, a non-functional testing technique performed to determine the system parameters in terms of responsiveness and stability under various workload. Performance testing measures the quality attributes of the system, such as scalability, reliability and resource usage.
- Watch out for downtime. Keep a check if everything that is functioning is running properly for a very long period of time. You never know for how long can the user be glued to it
- Make sure memory is available in the comments columns thus encouraging feedback from readers
- Run the powercfg/energy command. Thus you will be able to generate the report about power efficiency and its diagnostics.
The above not-to-forget steps are handy and if you try and follow the list, you can make an ideal plan for Desktop Testing. Happy Testing!
