Testing Considerations for GUI

Communication; aspects to be tested are:

• Tool tips and status bar

Missing information

• Enable/ Disable toolbar buttons
• Wrong/ misleading/ confusing information
• Help text and Error messages
• Training documents

Dialog Boxes; aspects to be tested are:

• Keyboard actions
• Mouse actions
• Canceling
• Okaying
• Default buttons
• Layout error
• Modal
• Window buttons
• Sizable
• Title/ Icon
• Tab order
• Display layout
• Boundary conditions
• Sorting
• Active window
• Memory leak

Command structure; aspects to be tested are:

• Menus
• Popup menus
• Command Line Parameters
• State transitions

Program rigidity; aspects to be tested are:

• User options
• Control
• Output

Preferences; aspects to be tested are:

• User tailor-ability
• Visual preferences
• Localization

Usability; aspects to be tested are:

• Accessibility
• Responsiveness
• Efficiency
• Comprehensibility
• User scenarios
• Ease of use

Localization; aspects to be tested are:

• Translation
• English-only dependencies
• Cultural dependencies
• Unicode
• Currency
• Date/ Time
• Constants
• Dialog contingency