An Exercise in Critical Thinking

One of the biggest challenges in this field is often finding the time to do a proper QA process on projects before they launch. Tight deadlines and last-minute changes often eradicate much of the time that should be allocated to QA.

So if you're launching a new website, and you only have a handful of minutes to do QA, you need to make sure that you know exactly what to look for. To that end, I recently developed a simple critical thinking exercise for my development team to help them learn the types of things that they should be looking for when they do a code review.

This is a basic HTML page that I've created and riddled with bugs, errors, and other things that are not best practices for the industry. There are some things that are simply coding errors like malformed tags. Other things, while they may be technically correct, will impact things like SEO and 508-compliance so they should be corrected.

Look through this HTML file and see how many problems you can find. I'll post the answers in a few days.

Download the Critical Thinking Exercise