--- title: "Testing QuestionPro surveys" description: "SurveyTester reads QuestionPro surveys natively: every question type is recognised, validation errors recorded, bots answer pricing, MaxDiff and conjoint." url: https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/test-surveys/testing-questionpro/ language: en type: article audiences: ["Project Managers", "Survey Authors", "Survey Testers"] published: 2026-10-16 updated: 2026-10-16 tags: ["questionpro", "survey system", "supported platforms", "maxdiff", "conjoint", "van westendorp", "validation"] --- # Testing QuestionPro surveys _Test Surveys ยท SurveyTester Academy_ QuestionPro is a dedicated survey system in SurveyTester. A project set to **QuestionPro** (or to **Automatic**) recognises a QuestionPro survey the moment the browser extension opens it: the language picker, every question with its answer options, matrix rows, sliders, rankings, the pricing and choice-modelling questions, and the validation messages QuestionPro shows when an answer does not fit. From there everything else in SurveyTester works as usual - Auto Answer, Auto Complete, SurveyBots, test cases, issues and the Pages & Routing overview. ## What a QuestionPro survey looks like to a tester A QuestionPro survey runs in one browser tab from the first to the last page. When the respondent clicks **Next**, the answers are sent in the background and the next question replaces the current one - the address changes, but the page never reloads. Many surveys show one question at a time ("interactive mode"): a single-choice, smiley, thumbs or NPS question moves on by itself as soon as an option is clicked. Multi-language surveys start with a language picker that also moves on with a single click. ![Placeholder: screenshot of a QuestionPro question in interactive mode (a five-point smiley scale) with the SurveyTester bar on top](https://www.surveytester.com/academy/_img/test-surveys/testing-questionpro/en/questionpro-question.png "w=44rem | A QuestionPro question under test") ## Why this is hard to test without SurveyTester - **Nothing reloads.** Because the whole survey lives in one tab, a generic tool sees a single page that keeps changing. SurveyTester watches the survey itself and records a new test step every time QuestionPro swaps the question - including the language picker and the thank-you page. - **Questions that answer themselves.** In interactive mode a click on an option already sends the page. Clicking **Next** as well would skip the following question unanswered. SurveyTester waits for the question to move on by itself and only clicks **Next** when it does not. - **The same question comes back.** A Gabor-Granger price question is asked again at a different price, a conjoint question shows several tasks and a MaxDiff question several sets - all under the same question number. SurveyTester records every price, task and set as its own step (`Q164952489_T0`, `Q164952489_T1`, ...). - **Rules that only show up on Next.** A constant sum that does not add up to 100, or Van Westendorp prices in the wrong order, are refused with a message under the question. SurveyTester captures the message, attaches it to the question and, in automated runs, answers again instead of getting stuck. - **Widgets without form fields.** Sliders, maps and drag & drop rankings are scripted widgets. SurveyTester moves the slider handle, clicks the region on the map and places the ranking items like a respondent would. ## Supported question types | QuestionPro question type | How SurveyTester tests it | |---|---| | Multiple choice (one or several answers), dropdown | Options are chosen; dropdowns are set like a respondent would pick them. | | Smiley rating, thumbs up/down, image chooser | One option (or several for image chooser with multiple answers) is clicked. | | Net Promoter Score | One point from 0 to 10 is chosen; the end labels are kept as the question's left and right text. | | Star rating (one or several rows), push to social | A number of stars is chosen per row. | | Comment box, single-line text, email address | A fitting text is typed; email boxes get a valid address. | | Contact information | Every field (name, phone, email, ...) is filled. | | Matrix (multi-point scale, checkboxes), image rating | Every row is answered; rows keep QuestionPro's row ids (`Q164952466_R164952467`). | | Matrix spreadsheet, flex matrix, side-by-side matrix | Every cell or column group is answered according to its kind (text, number, radio, checkbox). | | Text slider, numeric slider | The handle is moved to a position on the scale or within the slider's range. | | Constant sum | The numbers are distributed so that they add up to the required total. | | Rank order (dropdowns), drag & drop ranking | Every item receives a different rank; drag & drop items are placed in the ranking list. | | Date (dropdowns), calendar | Month, day and year are chosen, or a date is typed in the calendar's format. | | Map | A region (for example a US state) is clicked on the map. | | Van Westendorp | The four prices are entered in the order QuestionPro requires (too expensive > expensive > cheap > too cheap). | | Gabor-Granger | Yes or No is chosen for every price shown; the price is part of the recorded question. | | Card sorting (fixed groups) | Every card is placed into one of the groups, like dragging it into a basket. | | Conjoint, MaxDiff | One concept is chosen per task; in MaxDiff a different item is picked as most and least important. | | Language picker, descriptive text, heading | Recorded as such; the language is chosen like a single-choice question. | Image hotspots and the text highlighter are recorded as information so the page keeps its shape, but they are not filled automatically. A question type SurveyTester has not met yet is still read from its controls, so the test run continues; it is marked in the page structure so you can see which type was parsed generically. ## Step by step 1. **Create the project.** Choose **QuestionPro** as the survey system, or leave it at **Automatic** - the survey is recognised either way. Paste the survey link (`https://.questionpro.com/t/...`). 2. **Start a test run** from the project with the SurveyTester browser extension. The SurveyTester bar appears above the survey, and the first page (often the language picker) is recorded as step 1. 3. **Answer the survey** by hand, or press **Auto Answer** and **Auto Next** to let SurveyTester fill the page and move on. Every question QuestionPro shows becomes the next step. 4. **Check the result** on the Pages & Routing page: every question appears with its answer options, matrix rows and every validation message QuestionPro showed during the run. ![Placeholder: screenshot of the Pages & Routing page listing QuestionPro questions Q164952443, Q164952466 (matrix) and Q164952481 (Van Westendorp) with their options](https://www.surveytester.com/academy/_img/test-surveys/testing-questionpro/en/questionpro-pages-routing.png "w=44rem | The QuestionPro questions as SurveyTester records them") ## Good to know - **Question names.** QuestionPro numbers its questions with long ids. SurveyTester uses them as they are (`Q164952443`), so the names stay the same when the author inserts a question in between. - **One question per page.** In interactive mode every question is its own step. Turn interactive mode off in QuestionPro and SurveyTester records all questions of a page together. - **Validation messages.** "Total should add up to 100" or the Van Westendorp order messages are attached to the question that caused them. A run that keeps failing the same page is stopped as stuck. - **The thank-you page** ("Thank you for completing this survey.") ends the test run.