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Managing eZ Publish Web Content Management Projects

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Managing eZ Publish Web Content Management Projects

Overview of this book

open-source CMS (content management system) and development framework with functionality for web publishing, intranets, e-commerce, extranets, and web portals. In this book, Martin Bauer of designit.com.au an eZ publish Silver partner, teaches you how to successfully manage and implement an eZ publish web content management project. He shows you how to produce quality results in a repeatable manner with the minimum of effort, and end up with eZ publish solutions that will delight your clients. The book presents strategies, best practices, and techniques for all steps of your eZ publish project, starting from client requirements, through planning, information architecture and content modeling, design considerations, and right up to deployment, client training, maintenance, support, and upgrades.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Managing eZ Publish Web Content Management Projects
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Chapter 11. Testing

The goal of this chapter is to understand the different types of testing required for eZ publish projects. This covers all levels of the end solution, not just what appears on the surface. It includes the following:

  1. Load Testing

  2. Testing, Monitoring, and Reporting Tools

  3. Browser and User Acceptance Testing

  4. Accessibility Testing

In a good project plan, plenty of time is allowed for testing and the test plan should be done after the specification, well before the solution is ready to be tested. In reality, testing time is often sacrificed to meet deadlines; this leads to the release of solutions that contain bugs that need to be fixed once the solution is in a live environment. Although it is rare for a solution to go live without some bugs, it's important to make sure obvious errors are fixed before going live. It's far more expensive and time consuming to fix problems when a solution is in production due to the additional re-testing and re-deployment involved.

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