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3 Key Tips to Enhance QA & Development Collaboration for Website Launch Success
Effective collaboration between development and QA teams is crucial for a flawless website launch. Here are three proven tips to achieve it.
June 18, 2024
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CMS & Custom Development
Below are 3 tips to ensure effective collaboration between your development and QA teams. The customer should have been updated throughout the build process, so let’s assume any major changes have been hashed out already. Now is the time to cross Ts and dot the Is.
1. Get lots of eyes on the build – on different browsers and devices
Developers and project owners have been in the thick of the site build for a few months. Those involved in the build process tend to form blind spots, to no fault of their own. It’s time to recruit a few employees from the customer to review the website. Anyone with a fresh perspective is welcome to take some time out of their week to click around the new website. It’s important to get a lot of eyeballs on the new website, but be careful including too many people - otherwise you’ll find yourself wading through the personal opinions of 100 users wondering why their department isn’t front and center on the new website.The users recruited are encouraged to view the site through different browsers and devices. This should naturally occur with 8-10 users, but request them to view the site on their phone and desktop.
2. Create a central tracking location with minimal gate keepers
With all these eyeballs on the new site it’s time to collect the findings. Here at High Monkey, we like using a good old-fashioned spreadsheet for this. Nowadays there are lots of software options out there, so it’s really up to you to use what works best.When collecting issues, it’s important to gather specific pieces of information. We include the following columns in our spreadsheet to avoid unnecessary back and forth if a developer cannot replicate the issue:
- Description of the issue
- URL
- Mobile or desktop
- Browser
- Additional Note
- Issue status – this is for developers to track and log their progress.
3. Plan enough time ahead to re-test and fix additional issues
Quality Assurance means putting out a great final product. Once a new site is launched, users will find issues. The goal is to identify and resolve as many of those issues as possible beforehand. The three tips above will ensure a smooth process leading into the launch of a new website.Latest Blogs
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