What is Usability testing?

Answer

The usability testing process of the Mobile application is performed to have a quick and easy step application with less functionality than a slow and difficult application with many features. The main objective is to ensure that we end up having an easy-to-use, intuitive and similar to industry-accepted interfaces which are widely used.

1. To ensure that the buttons should have the required size and be suitable to big fingers.
2. To ensure that the buttons are placed in the same section of the screen to avoid confusion to the end users.
3. To ensure that the icons are natural and consistent with the application.
4. To ensure that the buttons, which have the same function should also have the same color.
5. To ensure that the validation for the tapping zoom-in and zoom-out facilities should be enabled.
6. To ensure that the keyboard input can be minimized in an appropriate manner.
7. To ensure that the application provides a method for going back or undoing an action, on touching the wrong item, within an acceptable duration.
8. To ensure that the contextual menus are not overloaded because it has to be used quickly.
9. To ensure that the text is kept simple and clear to be visible to the users.
10. To ensure that the short sentences and paragraphs are readable to the end users.
11. To ensure that the font size is big enough to be readable and not too big or too small.
12. To validate the application prompts the user whenever the user starts downloading a large amount of data which may be not conducive for the application performance.
13. To validate that the closing of the application is performed from different states and verify if it re-opens in the same state.
14. To ensure that all strings are converted into appropriate languages whenever a language translation facility is available.
15. To ensure that the application items are always synchronized according to the user actions.
16. To ensure that the end user is provided with a user manual which helps the end user to understand and operate the application who may be not familiar with the application’s proceedings

Usability testing is normally performed by manual users since only human beings can understand the sensibility and comfort ability of the other users.