- Usability test can be modified to cover many other types of
testing such as functional testing, system integration testing, unit
testing, smoke testing etc. (with keeping the main objective of
usability testing in mind) in order to make it sure that testing is
done in all the possible directions.
- Usability testing can be very economical if planned properly, yet highly effective and beneficial.
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If proper resources (experienced and creative testers) are used,
usability test can help in fixing all the problems that user may face
even before the system is finally released to the user. This may result
in better performance and a standard system.
- Usability testing
can help in uncovering potential bugs and potholes in the system which
generally are not visible to developers and even escape the other type
of testing.
Usability testing is a very wide area of testing
and it needs fairly high level of understanding of this field along
with creative mind. People involved in the usability testing are
required to possess skills like patience, ability to listen to the
suggestions, openness to welcome any idea, and the most important of
them all is that they should have good observation skills to spot and
fix the problems on fly.
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