Mercury Interactive's Astra Quicktest 3.0
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A Web site, on the other hand, is available 24 hours a day and the amount of information that can be projected to consumers is limitless.The constant audience can pose a problem. What if a mistake in your Web site's code causes pages to load incorrectly? Your company's credibility is at stake if your page does not load as designed or doesn't function as advertised. If your e-commerce site refuses a customer's order, how likely is it that the consumer will give you another chance instead of heading to your competitor?
Mercury Interactive's Astra QuickTest can help you protect your site from technical glitches by running automated tests that warn you if a search doesn't work, if a transaction doesn't go through or even if text and graphics don't load correctly.
After guiding QuickTest through your Web site, the program takes note of how the pages should load and alerts you if problems arise. The process, as the program implies, is quick and very easy to complete. The tutorial guides you through a sample test that takes less than 15 minutes and serves as an easy example to follow for your own test.
The test can be run before your Web site goes live to the world, or it can be scheduled to run at specified intervals to ensure that if something goes wrong you'll know about it before problems give your company a bad reputation.
The tests are easy to configure and are helpful in pointing out errors that could be easily overlooked. While a broken graphic link may be jarring and easy to spot, broken links to other pages could go undetected for long periods of time before the error is stumbled upon. Conducting one test of a search field could go ahead successfully while a subsequent search could fail.
QuickTest does a good job of efficiently checking for every possible error and reporting the good or bad news.One problem, however, is that errors usually occur when you'd least expect them. Even with scheduled tests, the chance of problems arising undetected remains. It's impossible to be completely immune from technical glitches. QuickTest can hunt them down but cannot prevent them from happening.
Another problem is the $2,995 US price tag ($4,345 Canadian). While QuickTest is definitely a useful product that can save time by minimalizing manual testing and monitoring of a Web site, the cost makes it a luxury for some small businesses.
Mercury Interactive's Astra QuickTest can help you protect your site from technical glitches by running automated tests that warn you if a search doesn't work, if a transaction doesn't go through or even if text and graphics don't load correctly.
After guiding QuickTest through your Web site, the program takes note of how the pages should load and alerts you if problems arise. The process, as the program implies, is quick and very easy to complete. The tutorial guides you through a sample test that takes less than 15 minutes and serves as an easy example to follow for your own test.
The test can be run before your Web site goes live to the world, or it can be scheduled to run at specified intervals to ensure that if something goes wrong you'll know about it before problems give your company a bad reputation.
The tests are easy to configure and are helpful in pointing out errors that could be easily overlooked. While a broken graphic link may be jarring and easy to spot, broken links to other pages could go undetected for long periods of time before the error is stumbled upon. Conducting one test of a search field could go ahead successfully while a subsequent search could fail.
QuickTest does a good job of efficiently checking for every possible error and reporting the good or bad news.One problem, however, is that errors usually occur when you'd least expect them. Even with scheduled tests, the chance of problems arising undetected remains. It's impossible to be completely immune from technical glitches. QuickTest can hunt them down but cannot prevent them from happening.
Another problem is the $2,995 US price tag ($4,345 Canadian). While QuickTest is definitely a useful product that can save time by minimalizing manual testing and monitoring of a Web site, the cost makes it a luxury for some small businesses.
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