difference between usability and userinterface tes
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Topic: difference between usability and userinterface tes
Posted By: Anjali
Subject: difference between usability and userinterface tes
Date Posted: 26Apr2007 at 4:16am
hello,
can any on tell me what is the difference betweeen userinterface and usability testing.
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Posted By: Banni
Date Posted: 26Apr2007 at 5:23am
These both fall under two different types of testing: functional and non-functional testing.
GUI testing is functional testing - ensuring that all interactions, navigation, links,
pop-ups, content, etc all work as required. Every aspect of the interface must be tested and
this can usually be done by developing tests based on your product's functional requirements
(if these are documented).
Usability testing is non-functional testing, which involves testing against non-functional
requirements such as standards or development guidelines. These non-functional requirements
place certain design contraints on the development activity, but don't actually explicitly
state how the product should function.
Usability requirements are typically based around some popular guidelines, such as Nielsen's
"Ten Heuristics" or Schneiderman's "Eight Golden Rules". These will typically be things like
design consistency, ease of use, informative feedback, easy reversal of actions and
learnability - all things that you should test by observing actual user behaviour in the
field, not by a tester from your company.
Searching on Google for terms like software user trials, software focus groups, usability
testing, user testing should all yield information on standard practices for this type of
testing.
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