Testing Print and Publish applications

 Introduction:

In the current world of digitization, printing/publishing books and magazines has become increasingly popular. Most people prefer online applications for designing and creating books and/or magazines over the traditional methods. In this article, you will learn about certain guidelines to be followed while QA testing such applications.

Testing approach:

Agile is the preferred methodology since it is easy to demonstrate the product after each milestone to the customer.

What to test: We should focus on the core functionality of our application, i.e., text and layout of our book or magazine. While performing QA testing for print & publishing online application, we must check a few things related to printing guidelines for a successful operational application:

Master Page: A master page is the guide for the whole document; we should thoroughly check whatever we mention on this page is reflected throughout the document.

Number of pages: Page count while creation should remain same after editing the document, unless it has been changed manually by the administrator.

Text: Text should also be checked for various other features, like: drop caps, text styling and copy-pasting text along with all available keyboard shortcuts for text editing and manipulation.

Fonts: We should check the applicability of various fonts on a document. On Windows platform, we can use any font for document creation, but for Macintosh platform, the most efficient way is to use postscript fonts or provide pdf files of our document before final print job.