Web Application Quality Metrics
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:33 am
What are some metrics you use to judge an web application for quality?
I'm hoping for usability and accessibility:
- XHTML/CSS validation
- Complete usability with JS disabled
- Complete usability with CSS disabled
Those are the easy ones because they have been documented over and over again...but I'd like to hear other metrics professionals might use to verify software, strictly in usability and accessibility, not source code form, such as unit tests, etc.
Assume you are testing SaaS and source is not available and "nice" design is subjective -- what are some concrete things you can look for?
- i18N
- Form state preservation (postback or session)
- Forward versus redirect (not sure if this is detectable via browser?)
- Is jQuery or similar library used instead of native browser DOM API
What are some other metrics one might use to determine the overall quality of an application?
I'm hoping for usability and accessibility:
- XHTML/CSS validation
- Complete usability with JS disabled
- Complete usability with CSS disabled
Those are the easy ones because they have been documented over and over again...but I'd like to hear other metrics professionals might use to verify software, strictly in usability and accessibility, not source code form, such as unit tests, etc.
Assume you are testing SaaS and source is not available and "nice" design is subjective -- what are some concrete things you can look for?
- i18N
- Form state preservation (postback or session)
- Forward versus redirect (not sure if this is detectable via browser?)
- Is jQuery or similar library used instead of native browser DOM API
What are some other metrics one might use to determine the overall quality of an application?