The Opquast glossary is available as part of the Opquast certified training “Mastering Web Quality Assurance”. It illustrates one of the fundamental needs of quality control in web projects: that all the actors speak a common language.
As such, it proposes a set of definitions which are used as part of the preparation for the Opquast certification. On the other hand, it does not claim to be universal, exhaustive, or to give definitions that are necessarily relevant in every context.
The full glossary contains about 260 definitions, but here’s a “mise en bouche” of our twenty favorites.
- Functionality of web browsers to locally conserve a resource record of a web page (image, file CSS, JavaScript files, etc.) to avoid having to download it again when visited the next time. The duration of use of a cache resource depends on metadata associated with it.
- In a complex process, the steps path shows the user the list step of the process and allows you to specify at what stage it is.
- Reduced version of content (usually an image, but also a video, etc.) displayed as an image-link to the actual content, or illustration of a link to it.
- HTML tag for marking an ordered list (typically, a numbered list) .The other HTML list items are the
ul(unordered lists) anddl(lists description). - Free web server software.
- See ID HTML.
- Digital image format for generating a compressed version of a still or moving image (by combining several successive images into a single file), limited to a maximum of 256 colors, with or without transparency. In websites, its use is particularly suitable for logos, icons, graphics, and other non-photographic images.
- Rendering the web page without the CSS styles that determine its layout: only the default styles of the browser are applied to the content. Rendering with styles disabled gives an idea of what is used by a user agent other than the browser: for example, an indexing robot or a screen reader. It reveals the possible loss of information due to the presence of CSS-generated content.
- Link placed at the beginning of the page content, allowing, during keyboard navigation, quick access to the content, menu or search areas without having to go through all the links and other interaction elements that precede it.
- Elaboration of the design of the final and complete aspect of a web page (colors, typography, visual effects, etc.) that will serve as a basis for HTML integration.
- Graphical representation of data: diagrams, pie charts, curves, etc.
- A set of web pages or content whose access requires authentication and is reserved for one or more users.
- The UI (user interface) is the perceptible part of a product, linking the human and the machine. In the case of the website: what the user will see, read, click, touch (touch screen) etc.
- A user may, for various reasons or constraints, not use the mouse or other similar pointing device. They can then interact with the Web browser and the pages consulted using only the keyboard. When browsing the keyboard in a Web page:
- The TABULATION key allows advancement within the list of links, fields or controls of forms and other interactive components present in the page, most often in the order of their appearance in its source code.
- The key combination SHIFT + TABULATION allows the user to go back in the list.
- The ENTER or SPACE BAR keys are the equivalent of the click.
- The different arrow keys may also be required to use some interface components, as well as the ESC key.
- A Web aggregator or content aggregator is a software or server feature that exploits RSS feeds to retrieve, exploit or render information published in the form of syndication feeds from websites.
- See Unicode.
- According to Opquast’s good quality practices, a content “indicated” in the page is a content that is present and can be consulted directly in the page (on the other hand, a content that can be accessed via a link present in the page is said to be “available”).
- In the Opquast approach, the “design” phase of the design process of a site or a Web service is the one that brings together the initial stages, linked to the specifications, prototyping, functional modeling and graphic modeling, upstream of the two other main phases, those of development and then editorial.
- The COQ (Cost of Obtaining Quality) are production costs and prevention needed to maintain the quality of the site or Service .
- A technique for loading content that allows it to be downloaded and displayed as the user scrolls through the web page.