It worked on my laptop
Millbrook Community Radio is a made-up station. The team tests its new page on a laptop and everything works. On launch day, a listener opens it on a phone. The sign-up text is too tiny to read and the video will not play.
One test on one device is not enough.
By the end of this lesson
Note
I can test the features of a multichannel solution and judge if it is fit for purpose.
Key words
| Word | What it means |
|---|---|
| Feature | one thing a product does, such as a menu |
| Function | what a feature is meant to do when used |
| Fit for purpose | good enough for the job it was made for |
| Device | the equipment used, such as a phone or laptop |
| Test plan | a table of tests and what should happen |
| Fault | something that does not work as it should |
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Test every feature on every channel
List each feature: text display, images, sound, animation, forms, menus, buttons, links, pop-ups, video and sound clips and moving between pages. For each one, write what it should do, that is its function.
Then test it on each device and channel the audience uses. A phone and a laptop can behave very differently.
A feature test plan (extract)
| Feature | Test | Expected result |
|---|---|---|
| Menu | Press each link | Each goes to the right page |
| Form | Type a name and press Send | A thank you message appears |
| Video clip | Press Play, then Pause | It plays and stops, with subtitles |
| Links | Press every link on the page | None goes to a missing page |
| Text display | View it on a small screen | Text can be read without zooming |
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