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Website QA Testing Resources
Visual Regression
- Diffy: tool to compare environments and avoid unintended consequences in the live environment
- Pantheon’s Autopilot: tool built in to Pantheon allowing you to set and forget software updates using visual regression testing as a safety net
Core Web Vitals
- Core Web Vitals – Measure: check your site for its CWV score and the suggested steps for remediation
- Lighthouse CI/CD: automate your CWV checks with every modification to code
Accessibility/ADA Compliance/Section 508
- SiteImprove: automated accessibility as well as site quality; high price tag, but is a reputation leader in the accessibility community.
- Tenon: less robust but great for accessibility scanning and CI/CD integration
- Browser extensions
- SiteImprove: standalone single page scanner to debug accessibility issues
- Deque’s axe DevTools: standalone page scanner similar to SiteImprove extension; provides an alternate perspective on similar issues
SEO Tools
- Semrush: do-it-all tool that allows you to measure and track a huge number of SEO/SEM metrics
- Yoast SEO Premium: paid version of the free WordPress plugin that helps with on-page SEO and honing content
Catching the Small Stuff
- Integrity: free tool that runs on your computer and scans for broken links
- Scrutiny: Integrity’s oldest sibling and more fully featured; an inexpensive tool that runs on your computer and scans for broken links, spelling, grammar, SEO, HTTPs check, page speed, etc.
So many more tools for QA testing…
- Static Code Analysis: analyze code for maintainability, efficiency, and vulnerabilities to name a few
- Load Testing: pressure test your infrastructure to ensure it can handle traffic bursts (a must have for event sites and e-commerce)
- Automatic Image Optimization: reduce image file size with automatic compression tools
- Error Reporting: get reports and alerts to debug website issues
- Application Performance Testing: understand how efficient and scalable your code is including opportunities for improvements and breaking points
Pantheon’s Quality Assurance
- Multidev: create different environments to iterate new features
- WebOps Workflow: deployment process as well as easy to use tools for replication of databases and files between environments
- New Relic: measure application performance in realtime
- Continuous Integration (CI/CD): implement automatic tasks and checks triggered by deployment
- Autopilot: visual-regression-tested software updates