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Regularly test the end-to-end services in an environment identical to that of the live version, including on all common browsers and devices, and using dummy accounts and a representative sample of users.
How point 21 improves the service
Testing the end-to-end service allows them to:
- find problems
- check that the service will work for the number of people who want to use it
How they’ll be assessed
Their assessment and the questions the assessors ask them will vary depending on their service and what it does.
In the discovery assessment
To pass, the service team usually need to:
- show that they have a plan for testing their alpha and have identified how they’ll perform automated testing
- show that the plan for testing includes development testing and after acceptance testing for bug capture
- show that they have an approach to capturing the end user experience and taking action on feedback
- show any non-functional requirements they are planning to test during alpha
In the alpha and beta assessment
To pass, the service team usually need to:
- show that they have an effective deployment environment
- show that they can create new environments quickly and easily
- show that they know the data that exists in their pre-production environments
- show that they are designing and testing their service to work with the devices and browsers their users use - find out the browsers they must test with
- show that they are testing their service in an environment that’s as similar to live as possible
- show that they know that their service can keep working when the number of expected users try to use it, including for users who need assisted digital support
- show that they understand the systems they need and the testing environments for non-digital parts of the service
- show that they are testing their service frequently - they’ll have to explain how they’ve decided how often to test