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The first stage of comparative testing of cms with

In March, the first stage of the comparative study of leading
cms-systems of the Russian market.
Testing conducted by specialists of the portal CMS List on request
the company "Yumisoft." The peculiarity of this research guarantees
adherence to the methodology and measurable results:

The first series examines usability of the systems when performing the most
standard actions of the site editor to add a new page.

Testing is addressed to potential users of control systems
content that face the choice of cms for your site.
The study is conducted from the perspective of a small business manager,
which requires online representation.
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Based on this, the following criteria for the selection of SMS were developed:
• Simplicity, a small set of features, but with the possibility of an upgrade in the future
• Initial budget not more than $ 200
• The history of cms development for at least 2 years, a serious developer and
possibility of technical support

Free versions of SMS are not considered.

The test list includes Netcat, HostCms, Abo.Cms, Twilight.Cms,
Bitrix, S.builder and UMI.CMS.

The study conducted its own testing, in the course of
which for the conditional site administrator put any
A typical task to perform a series of standard actions in each CMS:

1) Create a new page “Hello world!” In the place of the third one
item of the main menu of the site.
2) Add the text "Hello, world!" Typed in Word, cast text
in accordance with the formatting used on the site.
3) Make the page invisible to site visitors, see this
page on the site.
4) Make the page visible to all visitors to the site (publish).
5) Move the page to another location in the site menu (make
sub-item of the second item of the main menu).

After that, testers go to the documentation and support services.
each CMS and find out the most correct sequence of actions for
achieve this task. After that for each CMS is compared
the number of actions to complete the task and the time spent.

During testing, the total time spent on
the implementation of the entire sequence of actions and the number of clicks
required to perform these actions. Along with this in
The study describes the characteristics of all of the above
systems.

The difference of this approach is that the results are absolute and easy.
check, and therefore unbiased.

In general, following the results of testing, we can draw the following conclusions:

The systems reviewed generally confirmed their reputation as leaders.
Russian CMS market. They all have proven to be simple and
available solutions for the most ordinary user, but each
of these have their individual advantages and disadvantages that
detailed and specifically addressed in the study.

Read the full description of the research methodology and its
results can be here
www.cmslist.ru/articles/cms_usability_test

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/7000/


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