Re: Strategies to test stacks in different platforms

[Bob Sneidar]

+1. I got 2 new technicians whose struggles with Forms Generator made me 
rethink a few things. They also found bugs I had not yet discovered.

Bob S


On Sep 10, 2016, at 14:09 , J. Landman Gay 
> wrote:

Really the only way to test thoroughly is to find someone else to do it, 
someone who has never seen your stack before. As a developer, you know too much 
to test in an unbiased way. Also, watching a new user try to figure out what to 
do will tell you a lot about your interface.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay | 
jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software   | 
http://www.hyperactivesw.com

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Re: Strategies to test stacks in different platforms

[Alejandro Tejada]

Hi Jacque,

Many Thanks for publishing a link
to your webpage!

After posting my first message, I found this
webpage written by Devin Asay:
http://revolution.byu.edu/design/InterfaceDes.php

Among many useful references cited by Devin,
I found this webpage:
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/

In Devin's webpage, there are a few dead links like:
1) http://homepage.mac.com/bradster/iarchitect/
2) 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwui/html/uidesign.asp

Does exists (for stacks) a checklist that I could print
and fill? A checklist similar to this, but created just
for stacks:
https://www.ncsu.edu/mmania/mm_docs/mm_judge_rubric2.html

Many Thanks in advance!

Alejandro

On Sat, Sep 10, 2016,
Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote:

> I wrote this almost 20 years ago for the AOL HC forum,
> but it still applies:



> Really the only way to test thoroughly is to find
> someone else to do it, someone who has never seen
> your stack before. As a developer, you know
> too much to test in an unbiased way. Also, watching
> a new user try to figure out what to do will tell you
> a lot about your interface.

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Re: Strategies to test stacks in different platforms

[J. Landman Gay]

On 9/10/16 2:14 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote:

Hi All,

In this moment, I am testing an application
(saved as an stack, not an executable)
in Linux and Windows.

As professional developers, many of you
have to do this every day.

Could you share some true and tried strategies
to test stacks as users (not as developers)
in different platforms?


I wrote this almost 20 years ago for the AOL HC forum, but it still applies:


Really the only way to test thoroughly is to find someone else to do it, 
someone who has never seen your stack before. As a developer, you know 
too much to test in an unbiased way. Also, watching a new user try to 
figure out what to do will tell you a lot about your interface.


--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software   | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

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Strategies to test stacks in different platforms

[Alejandro Tejada]

Hi All,

In this moment, I am testing an application
(saved as an stack, not an executable)
in Linux and Windows.

As professional developers, many of you
have to do this every day.

Could you share some true and tried strategies
to test stacks as users (not as developers)
in different platforms?

Thanks in advance!

Al

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