Software Quality Assurance. Graphic User Interface Testing

You can start reporting bugs from the day one
It helps you to keep the job by creating a good impression from the day one
It helps you to get a job if you are able to talk about the subject at the interview
All the rules, standards, recommendations are published
Not many people know about their existence
GUI issues are normally not given much of attention – you can find bugs easily and report them a lot

Windows – GUI (menus, drag and drop, dialog boxes, desktops, etc.)
Microsoft GUI guidelines for Windows Apps
Dept. of Health and Human Services usability guidelines for web applications
Web applications overall are developed badly in terms of GUI and usability

you use when write bug reports – you speak the technically correct language
400 items check list for GUI testing of web applications sorted by relative importance
300 pages with lots of graphics
It becomes a part of your vision

of them given to us
Written documentation (business and technical)
Discussions, meeting notes
Industry practices (nice to have vs. must have)
Product we want “to be like”

– nice to have
Which field, gets default input focus
TAB order: logical or LEFT->RIGHT; TOP -> BOTTOM
Provide default values to the fields if appropriate
Labels end up with the colon (:) character