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BoF: The future of User Testing in Drupal

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Submitted by eigentor on Wed, 07/23/2008 - 13:22.
Placement
Session time: 
08/29/2008 - 15:00 - 08/29/2008 - 15:45

Overview

Come up with a plan how to encourage and perform constant user testing in Drupal. The BoF continues on what has been said in the Session "User Testing in Drupal".

Agenda

  • User testing is tedious, what can we do to make it more fun?
  • The main problem is that in a test, you question your own work. This is unpleasant, because you might find out it has issues. Or is this no issue?
  • One needs testing persons. How can one make it easy for them so they may participate in testing Drupal again? Who are the people we need for that?
  • Generally two ways of testing can be done: completely remote, or with you directly watching the Tester. Which one is better?
  • There is also the "big solution" (formal Studies like in Minnesota and Baltimore. We also need those. What role do they play, and what role play smaller ones?
  • How can we utilize existing Infrastructure to minimize redundant work? Maybe the DROP program can be used and extended? Do the issue queues help?

Resources

Usability Testing Suite
In dev state,
maintained by boombatower