How to QA a new website or site section

This guide covers minimum checks to complete before and after a new website or site section goes live.

Website QA: before go-live

Once a go-live date has been confirmed, ask content owners to review their pages, forms and menu structure.

If forms are required, understand privacy requirements before they are built.

To build a new form, use the create a Drupal form and advanced forms guides.

Content owners will need to download and delete submissions as part of data storage requirements.

Complete a final QA of each page to review content and layout. Use the digital accessibility and quality checks guide.

SDP sites have 2 menus as standard:

main menu (a single menu that displays on the top, side and bottom of a page as the fat footer)
footer menu (menu that displays under the Acknowledgement to Country with required links such as privacy).

For breadcrumbs to display on pages, all pages need to be in the main menu. This is important for SEO and UX.

Refer to the site footer - digital guide to see what pages need to be created and added to the footer menu.

After the website is live, it’s best practice to run a broken link check and remediate any broken links.

Use the URL redirects to add each redirect to the CMS.

Test the following are capturing data correctly:

Review Was this page helpful feedback and action recommendations where appropriate.

Review governance tools (for example, Hotjar heatmaps) and action any accessibility or policy violations where appropriate.