Testing and Kids

You can’t release your website without testing. It may cause different problems, from bugs to unpredictable results of interacting with a site’s features.

There are usually two traditional ways of testing: 1.The developer writes a test app that checks the functional elements of the code and 2. A QA tester checks all features of the site, its appearance in different browsers or through different mobile and tablet devices, etc.

In this article, we are going to talk about the untraditional ways of website testing.

Kids

Websites have different target audiences. One of these audiences consists of kids and teenagers.

Here, traditional testing might not be the last stage of QA. Regarding the fact that the site would be used by children, it also gets tested by kids.

Children require an age-appropriate language of the site. This means words and phrases must be quite simple.

The same goes for the navigation and functionality (maximum intuitive and simple).

However, this is a trend for all modern sites now.

While testing, kids are allocated in groups by age. They use the site and their behavior is recorded. It makes it possible to see what functionality works okay, what is unclear, or what doesn’t work with kids.

This testing may look similar to testing with a target audience. However, here the main goal is to find out if the site is usable enough for children. A secondary goal might be to understand how kid-testers like the site and to get some feedback.

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