LO4: User Testing

How I will test my website:

Navigation: 

I could test this by making it so the user has to find a webpage as quick as they can, this will show how easy it is to navigate as the quicker they get to a page the more easily it was to navigate for them.

I could also test this by seeing how many clicks it takes for them to get to a certain page, as the less clicks on links they had to make, the easier it was to navigate for them. I will make the webpage they have to find external (The Royal Armouries shop).

Internal and External Hyperlinks:

These will be tested with navigation in mind as the user has to click on these kind of links to get to the target page (when testing navigation), I will see if the links actually take them to the page the link said it would, internally (within my website) and externally (outside my website). 

Page load Times:

This will be tested with one singular link, to make it a fair test across all users. I have noticed that the shop I had put in my website takes the longest to load, but I want to see how long, so the user will test how long that is. I will then also do a test to see how long it takes to get to an external link too.

Performance of Website when using different Browsers:

I will test this on two platforms as well as two browsers, one on mobile and one on a desktop, because my website has a mobile-friendly option too I want to see how it compares to the desktop version. The two browser the user will use are up to them, but I may have them state what they are.

The consistency of the house style:

I will test this by making the user go to each page that are each a different type of page, so one will be the home page, then a products page, then the blog page and then finally the store with one of its product pages, which is different to the previously mention product page. The user will be then asked whether or not the house style does consist throughout the website.

The Test Plan:

Test numbers which are testing navigation are 1,3,4,5.

Test numbers which are testing internal and external hyperlinks are 1,2,3,4,5,6,7.

Test numbers which are testing page load times are 2 and 7.

Test numbers which are testing the performance of the website on different browsers are 8 and 9.

The test number which is testing the consistency of the housestyle is 10.

User: Will Slater               

Date: 25/05/2016

Platform: iMac

Browser: Safari (Default browser for iMac)

Test No.	Task	Expected Outcome	Actual Outcome
1	Go to one of the products on the Royal Armouries webpage (Accessed through an External link within the website)	Minimum of 3 clicks on hyperlinks to get to the external webpage.	It only took me 3 clicks to get there.
2	How long does it take to load the external link that is one of the royal Armouries product pages?	Less than a second.	Took a little more over a second to load.
3	Find the Blog (Starting from the home page).	Blog found easily.	Found
4	Find the Cart (Starting from the homepage)	Cart Found easily.	Found
5	Find the Mini Digger product page (Starting from the homepage)	Mini Digger Product Page found.	Found
6	Does the Mini Digger item show up in the cart when the ‘Add to cart’ button is clicked.	Yes.	Yes
7	When ‘Shop’ is clicked in the navigation bar, how long does it take to load the page? (Internal Link)	Less than a second.	Yes
8	Using any browser on a mobile phone, is there anything obvious out of place?	No.	No, everything is laid out the same as the Desktop (Chrome)
9	Using both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, is there any noticeable performance issues between the two?	No.	No, they both work the same
10	When browsing through the different pages, would you say the house style is consistent?	Yes.	Yes.

User: Louis Norton                                                                                                                             

Date: 25/05/2016

Platform: Windows 10

Browser: Google Chrome

Test No.	Task	Expected Outcome	Actual Outcome
1	Go to one of the products on the Royal Armouries webpage (Accessed through an External link within the website)	Minimum of 3 clicks on hyperlinks to get to the external webpage.	3 Clicks.
2	How long does it take to load the external link that is one of the royal Armouries product pages?	Less than a second.	Less than a second
3	Find the Blog (Starting from the home page).	Blog found easily.	found it
4	Find the Cart (Starting from the homepage)	Cart Found easily.	found it
5	Find the Mini Digger product page (Starting from the homepage)	Mini Digger Product Page found.	found it
6	Does the Mini Digger item show up in the cart when the ‘Add to cart’ button is clicked.	Yes.	yes
7	When ‘Shop’ is clicked in the navigation bar, how long does it take to load the page? (Internal Link)	Less than a second.	Took a few seconds
8	Using any browser on a mobile phone, is there anything obvious out of place?	No.	Nothing is out of place. It had the same set out as the computer version.
9	Using both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, is there any noticeable performance issues between the two?	No.	Both work about the same.
10	When browsing through the different pages, would you say the house style is consistent?	Yes.	Yes. They all have the same kind of colour scheme and wallpaper.