The great shift from desktops and laptops to smartphones is itself a big challenge for the website designers. While creating an effective mobile app, the designer has to consider various factors like readability, navigability, screen resolution and etc. However, there are multiple ways to approach a mobile web presence and the most popular approach is the responsive web design.<\/p>\n
The basic concept behind a responsive design is to build one site or app that fits all screen sizes, be it desktop, smart phone or a tablet. As a software test analyst, I am the one who is responsible for ensuring the users a consistent performance across a range of devices.\u00a0 Here in this blog, I will talk about how we can test responsive websites to ensure consistency. So, if you are interested in offering a consistent user experience of your mobile website, then get in touch with us as our team can help you to properly plan the testing phases of your responsive website.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The great shift from desktops and laptops to smartphones is itself a big challenge for the website designers. While creating an effective mobile app, the designer has to consider various factors like readability, navigability, screen resolution and etc. However, there…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,172,104],"tags":[320],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-technology","category-web-development","tag-responsive-mobile-website","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":862,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDevise the test strategy:<\/span><\/strong>
\nCreating a strategy that is best to test the responsiveness of the site is vital and unless you have a proper testing budget, it won\u2019t be possible for you to test every operating system, browser, device combination and this would make it difficult to identify the browsing habits of the users. At IDS Logic, we have a set of the latest handsets that are used to test the client\u2019s website that are mostly used by their customers. We also use Google Analytics to determine the browsers and devices that influence the majority of the web traffic.
\nKnow the differences:<\/strong> <\/span>
\nResponsive design itself means changes in the design based on the different screen sizes. It is very important to remember that testing multiple template designs can be disorientating. So plan your testing process, so that you don\u2019t have to flip constantly from handsets to desktops. There are occasions where avoiding this becomes impossible and so it is important to understand the intentions of the designer on different pages. As a test analyst, if I am short of information that I need in the project, then I ask my team to provide me with more details.
\nDevelopment time:\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span>
\nAnother big issue with the testing of a responsive design<\/a><\/span> is that developers take more time to build the website for handsets. Converting an existing site into a responsive one requires considering various features and functionalities, making the task more difficult. It is only after that, the website can be thoroughly checked for multiple devices and this soon adds up time.
\nNavigation menus and images:<\/strong> <\/span>
\nNavigation plays a crucial role in any website. With multi-layer drop down or mega menus being used for desktops, converting it for mobile devices will always encounter limited screen space and this makes designing intuitive navigation menus a challenge. Not only this, the scaling of images is also another limitation. Creating different images according to the device is a good solution, but it also has various other things to consider. Failing to test each image will often lead to a disaster.<\/p>\n