QA Check list

Test Carried out	Expected	Actual (Yes or No )	Remarks	Ticket Reference (Corresponding bug id if u have any bug tracking tool )
1. Functionality
1.1 Links
Internal Links	Should be present
External Links	Should be present
Mail to links	Should open mailbox
Orphan pages (a page that has no links to it)	Should not be present
Broken links	Should not be present
Are all referenced web sites or email addresses hyperlinked?
If we have removed some of the pages from our own site, set up a custom 404 page that redirects your visitors to your home page (or a search page) when the user try to access a page that no longer exists.
1.2 Forms
Acceptance of invalid input
Input longer than field allows	Checked Unique records, Date validation
Functional checks	Create, modify, view and delete are working.
Error Handling for wrong inputs or actions.	Appropriate error messages to be displayed.
Optional and mandatory fields.	Mandatory field should not be left blank. Optional should allow the user to skip the field.
1.3 Cookies
Check to see what happens if a user deletes cookies while in site
Check to see what happens if a user deletes cookies after visiting a site
1.4 Data integration
Check the maximum field lengths to ensure that there are no truncated characters?
If numeric fields accept negative values can these be stored correctly on the database and does it make sense for the field to accept negative numbers?
If a particular set of data is saved to the database check that each value gets saved fully to the database. (i.e.) Beware of truncation (of strings) and rounding of numeric values.
1.5 Data field check
Assure that leap years are validated correctly & do not cause errors/miscalculations.
Assure that Feb. 28, 29, 30 are validated correctly & do not cause errors/ miscalculations.
1.6 Numeric fields
Assure that lowest and highest values are handled correctly.
Assure that numeric fields with a blank in position 1 are processed or reported as an error.
Assure that fields with a blank in the last position are processed or reported as an error
Assure that both + and - values are correctly processed.
Assure that division by zero does not occur.
Include value zero in all calculations.
1.7 Alphanumeric field checks
Use blank and non-blank data.
Include lowest and highest values.
Include invalid characters & symbols.
Include valid characters.
Include data items with first position blank.
Include data items with last position blank.
2. Usability: How Simple Customer can browse the website
2.1 Navigation: It describes the way user navigate with in a webpage, between different user interface controls ( buttons, text boxes, combo boxes, drop down lists etc)
Navigation through Mouse	Should be proper
Navigation through Tab	Should be proper
Main features access	Should be accessed from home/Main page
Hot Keys, Control Keys for menu or action	Should work
2.2 Content: Correctness is whether the information is truthful or contains misinformation. The accuracy of the information is whether it is with out grammatical or spelling errors.
Spelling and Grammar	To be proper
Updated information’s.	Past events/ information’s to be removed.
2.3 General Appearance
Page Appearance	Should not be any overlapping, missing etc.,
Colour, font and size	Should be as per standard
Frames	All frames to be appeared
Consistent Design	Everywhere in the website consistent layout and design should be carried out.
Favicon, logos and symbols
3. User Interface : All about how exactly website look like
3.1 Screen resolution	must be tested with various screen
3.2 Varying font size
3.3 View in text browser
3.4 Without Javascripts
3.5 Without plug-in if any
3.6 Without images
3.7 Page titles
3.8 Hyperlink colors	It should be standard
3.9 All the fonts to be same
3.10 All images are optimized for quick downloads
3.11 Alt tag for all images
3.12 Are all disabled fields avoid in TAB sequence
3.13 Are all read only fields avoid in TAB sequence
3.14 Link to home on every single page
3.15 Default value of the drop down box	Should have meaningful sentence such as "Choose one" or "Select"
3.16 Cursor will be on first editable field
3.17 When an error message occurs does the focus return to the field in error when the user cancels it?
3.18 Persistancy of all values ( When you enter values in a form, and move on the next page and then return to change one of the previous screen. The user must not be forced to reenter all the values once again, this must be checked and ensured. )
3.19 Pagination	Use where appropriate
3.20 Error messages	Illegal operations should give error messages and they should be simple and clear
3.21 Success messages	Should display
3.22 Horizontal scrolling	Avoid horizontal scroll bar ensure that the use of vertical scroll bar is judicious
4. Server Side Interface
4.1 Server Interface	Communication should be correct with respect to Web server, App server and DB server
4.2 Compatibility with server hardware, Sw, network connections	Should be proper.
4.3 Database compatibility[s1]	Should be easily portable to other database.
5. Client side Compatibility
5.1 Platform
Windows2000, NT	Should be working
Unix	Should be working
Linux	Should be working
Solaris	Should be working
Macintosh	Should be working
5.2 Browsers
I.E	Should work in all versions above 4.x
Firefox	Should work in all versions above 2.x
Safari
Opera
Graphics	Load of images, graphics should be proper
4.3 Printing
Text and alignment	Should be proper
Colours of text, foreground and background	Should be readable.
Scalability to fit paper size.	Should print in A4, Letter size.
Tables and borders.	Should be proper.
6. Performance
6.1 Connection speed
Should be measured in 14.4, 28.8, 33.6, 56.6, ISDN, Cable and DSL
Timeout	Should give appropriate time to search. Incorrect message, data loss should not be present.
6.2 Load
Estimated users.	Per requirements
Peak load	Should withstand
Large amount of data from users	Should accept
6.3 Stress
System Crash	Should not be present
Error in Sw, HW, Memory	Leakage, overwrite should not happen.
6.4 Continuous use
Estimate whether available for 24 Hrs, 7 days a week	Try with various timings.
Downtime	Measure the downtime
Memory or disk space	Should not run out of memory or disk space.
7. Security
7.1 Valid and Invalid	Should not enter with Invalid login
7.2 Number of tries	Should not be more than 3 times for invalid try.
7.3 Enter url directly without logging in.	Should not display information.
7.4 Log files	Should be maintained
7.5 Access to server scripts	Authenticated.
7.6 Does the application include time-outs due to inactivity?
7.7 Is bookmarking disabled on secure pages?
7.8 Is Right Click, View, Source disabled?
7.9 SQL injection
7.10 Java script injection
8. HTML Validations
HTML Validation
CSS Validation
Styles should be always placed in external CSS files.
Content should be formatted through cascading styles (CSS).
9 SEO
9.1 Domain name
Main keyword in the domain name
Easy to spell and remember
Without hyphens were possible
Domain extension
Host location
9.2 URL
URL structure	Avoid using lengthy URLs with unnecessary parameters and session IDs.
Directory structure	Create a simple directory structure
Unique to each page	Do not have duplicate ones like http://www.mywebsite.com/ and http://www.mywebsite.com/index.php.
Mixing www. and non-www. versions of URLs
Odd capitalization of URLs
Extension	Aim to hide the underlying technology of your website and thus remove the extension, creating clean and descriptive URLs.
Keywords in URL	Should include relevant keywords – Avoid keyword duplication. The keyword should be mentioned sooner in the URL
9.3 Page Title
Unique
Informative
Keyword in title
9.3 Meta tags
9.3.1 Description meta tag - Limit to 150 characters
Summary of the page content
Unique description for each page
9.3.2 Description meta tag
Number of keywords	don’t use more than 7 to 10 words for your meta keywords
Unique and relevant keywords	Use unique and relevant meta keywords for every single page, related to page content. Do not repeat any word more than 3 times.
Usage of capital letters	Don't use all capital letters unless the word is an acronym, like "SEO", which is short for Search Engine Optimization.
9.3.3 Robots Meta Tag (add in live server)
Check	This is specified if the current page should not be indexed by the search engines, as in the case of a custom error page.
9.4 Page contents
Number of words	Each page of your content should contain about 250 – 600 words of unique content with 4 or 5 occurrences of your targeted keywords.
Keyword density	At least 3 keywords in a page. Your keywords should be toward the top of your page and your keyword phrase is in either every paragraph or every second paragraph depending on your paragraph length.
Hyper linked keyword	Include your most important keyword in hyper linked text.
9.5 Alt tag
Alt tag for images
Keywords as alt tag	Wherever possible, put PROPER KEYWORDS in the ALT tags. Don’t go wild with this and don’t miss-label any pictures.
Alt tags for navigation buttons
9.6 Sitemap
Sitemap.xml
9.7 Anchor tag
9.8 Robots.txt
9.9 Page size
Check page size	Good SEO site page size ideal should be 15KB, can exceed up to 50 KB.
9.10 Error page
Check for custom error page
9.11 Redirection
301 redirection	Check for permanent redirection
302 redirection	Temporary redirection