Typeform test form before you send it

A one-question-per-screen form shows a stranger the question in front of them and nothing about the questions ahead. They cannot see which answer leads to which ending, so a branch can send them to a question they have not read. A required text question with no example of what to type can leave them stuck. On a phone, a long answer can push the Next button under the keyboard. The owner can see every branch in the form's logic settings. A stranger never gets that view, and only the route they happen to take shows up.

• Count the branches in the logic setup and write down the question each one sends the visitor to.
• Pick each answer that skips questions, then check the first question that appears after it.
• Reach each ending and read the screen, including the thank-you text and any link it offers.
• Type a long answer into a text question on a phone and confirm the Next button stays reachable.
• Go back one question and check the earlier answer is still filled in, not blank.

On a phone, a stranger sees one question, a set of answer choices, and a Next button. They tap an answer and wait for the next screen. If they go back to change something, they expect the earlier answer to still be there, and a blank box makes them start again. A stranger decides quickly whether the form is for them, and a question they did not expect, such as a budget before a date, can be the point where they close the tab.

The wrong way is to answer the form the way you designed it, reach the ending you expect, and stop. That tests the path you designed and nothing else. The right way is to list every answer that changes the route, then run each route to its own ending on a phone. Two branch questions with three answers each give nine routes in the simple case, so write them down before you test, and mark each one as you run it.

Check the endings as carefully as the questions. An ending that says thanks, we will call you is only true if someone calls. An ending that links to a page behind a login, or to a page that no longer exists, sends the stranger into a dead end at the last step. Read each ending's words and follow any link it offers.

Each simulated run takes one route through the form, answers each question it reaches, and records the question where it stopped. The report gives you that question, a screenshot of the screen, and any script error or failed request recorded there. It does not read your responses or your results view, so check the response yourself in your account, under the answers you gave, to see what you will receive.

Forms change after launch. A new question, a new branch or a moved ending can send a stranger to a screen nobody has read. After each change, run every route again from the public link on a phone, and compare the question each simulated visitor reached with the last run, to see which route moved.