Are We Overlooking Some Usability Testing Methods? A Comparison of Lab, Beta, and Forum Tests
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Summary
The results of this study broaden the current literature by showing that the Beta test method may be a cost-effective alternative to the traditional lab test.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 1993-10-01
- Cited by
- 48
- References
- 13
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Keywords
Usability, Test (biology), Computer science, Software, Test strategy
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- Neue Behandlungscontainer für den Katastrophenfall
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- Prototype electronic student assessment and data management systems
- Usability and open source software.
- A penny for your thoughts. Investigating the validity and reliability of think-aloud protocols for usability testing
- A Survey of Computer-Aided Techniques for Extracting Usability Information from User Interface Events
- Separating the Wheat from the Chaff in Internet-Mediated User Feedback
- Prioritizing usability problems: Data-driven and judgement-driven severity estimates
- User-process model approach to improve user interface usability
- Academic library beta testing of vendor system design and upgrade: Legal aspects and checklists of best practice
- Impacts of navigation structure, task complexity, and users’ domain knowledge on Web site usability—an empirical study
- The Usability of Open Source Software
- The Added Usefulness of Process Measures Over Performance Measures in Interface Design
- Taking Discovery Systems for a Test Drive
- Separating the wheat from the chaff in Internet-mediated user feedback expectation-driven event monitoring
- Usability testing in 2000 and beyond
- Incorporating User Perspectives in the Design of an Online Intervention Tool for People with Visible Differences: Face IT
- Evaluation in der Software-Ergonomie:
- Agents for collecting application usage data over the Internet
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