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Usability Testing

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Sometimes we face with incomprehensible, illogical applications; many of functions and methods of use of them are not obvious for us. After working with such an application for some time we rarely have desire to use it again, and we are looking for a more comfortable one. To be functional is not enough for an application to be popular. It must be comfortable. Intuitive applications save your nerves and also save the cost of our training for employer. That means they are more competitive! Therefore, usability testing, which will be discussed further, is an integral part of testing for any bulk product.


Testing of usability is a method of testing to establish the degree of usability, learnability, understandability and attractiveness for users.


Usability testing evaluates the level of ease when using an application for the following items:

  • Eefficiency - how much time and steps are required for a user to complete the main task of an application, such as placement of news, registration, purchase, etc.
  • Accuracy - how many mistakes a user makes during his work.
  • Recall - how much stuff a user remembers about an application after suspending it for a long period of time.
  • Emotional response a user feels after completion of his tasks - a loss, stress, may be smth else. Would he recommend the system to his friends?

    • 06:41 - 2010-May-22

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