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I’m starting a short series on testing over the next few months. The first few questions are some of the key questions that I’ve been asked regularly around best practices for testing: [link] What’s the most effective method for testing products? MORE
The Screenplay Test Design Pattern, also known as the Flow Pattern, has been around since 2007 and is brilliantly described by Antony Marcano, Andy Palmer, Jan Molak and John Ferguson Smart in their article Page Objects Refactored: SOLID Steps to the Screenplay/Journey Pattern. The main issue is that the commonly used Page Object pattern can introduce a high maintenance cost if the test automation solution grows. MORE
We may associate the idea of beta testing with Google, Microsoft, video games, and other tech with roots in the late 20th century, but IBM cemented “beta” as far back as the 1950s. The Many Faces of Beta Testing. An industry survey revealed over 90 names for pre-release testing. MORE
Hence we’re bringing you this series of weekly UX beginner’s guides, aimed to help all the newbies of the UX testing world. This week: tree-testing! Here we’ll be answering the following questions: what is tree testing? How do I run my own tree testing? MORE
Today, it’s common to hear people talk about testing early-stage products like it’s a bad thing. You can’t build a better product just by A/B testing button colors, no. Clarify and test your company’s values. You do this through testing. MORE
It illustrates perfectly why quantitative and qualitative testing (and research) need to go hand-in-hand for a complete picture. Although A/B testing tells you what users are doing, it doesn’t tell you why they are doing it. Analyze your test across key segments to see this. MORE
UX copywriting and user testing? But you don’t have to start from scratch when it comes to testing content and microcopy. We, at UX studio , collected three methods that provide more insights than general AB testing. What are the limitations of A/B testing? Take the test! MORE
Changing user habits isn’t easy — but understanding how to conduct Habit Testing will increase your odds of success. In this video, I provide a brief introduction to the three steps of Habit Testing. MORE
With the addition of iOS mobile app testing, TryMyUI now offers the ability to test any product on any device. Read on to learn how our iOS user testing works, and what you need to know to get started. The post Test iOS mobile apps with TryMyUI! Features TryMyUI Mobile App Mobile Testing Remote User Testingappeared first on TryMyUI Blog. MORE
Here are 5 things you'll learn when you test users' first impressions of your site. The post 5 things you learn from a website impression test appeared first on TryMyUI Blog. Practicing UX Research TryMyUI Usability Gallery First Impression Impression Testing Landing pages UX Design MORE
Most product managers recognize the value of user testing. So it is often hard to fit in testing and design iteration before the sprint deadline. Steven Cohn , the Founder of Validately and a user testing expert, gives some practical advice on how to balance the time pressures of product management and conducting proper user testing. (SJ Why should a product team allocate its limited time to user testing? SJ: What are the different testing options? MORE
Exploring the basics of creating and testing UX prototypes. UX designers and researchers follow an iterative process – testing pieces and versions of the product and making improvements along the way, until, in the end, you’ve got a thoughtful and useful product that people love. MORE
As a Quality Assurance Manager, you’re fighting daily with testing websites or software during the build process, as well as after launch. With this comparison between automated vs. manual testing, we want to help you to make a quicker decision what to use. What is Manual Testing. MORE
User testing is a bit like sports. Quite often getting your product tested by real people is skipped because of budget constraints and exploding costs in development. But user testing doesn’t necessarily have to break the bank. Only Test Your Product’s Red Route. MORE
This is the second of two posts that deep dive on A/B tests, expanding on a talk I gave at Google Playtime 2016 in London. As mentioned in the first post, if you plan to run a lot of A/B tests then you should think about using a document to store test information, which I call the tracker. MORE
Fortunately Bill is here to provide us with three tests that.[continue The post 3 Tests for Great Product Messaging appeared first on 280 Group Product Management. In this new video and blog post we discuss something that is exceedingly important in the product world: messaging. MORE
If your company is like most organizations, there’s a team running a mobile beta test to prevent either scenario. If it’s your responsibility to surface these nuances (as it could be if you’re reading this blog post), here are 10 tips you can use when planning your next mobile beta test. MORE
Of those respondents, nearly 50% of those managing customer testing programs were product managers. On the flip side, this also means that the challenges faced by product managers, like time constraints and stakeholder misalignment, are mirrored in their customer testing programs. MORE
Quality testing identifies anomalies or defects that are not working as expected. “Alpha” is a testing phase where a release candidate (or potentially shippable increment) is tested on client systems (such as devices and browsers) and data by VENDOR employees. MORE
This is the first of two posts that deep dive on A/B testing, expanding on a talk I gave at Google Playtime 2016 in London. In this post I share some of the learnings we’ve had after running 60+ A/B tests at Peak , looking at each step of the A/B testing cycle in turn. MORE
Industry leaders learned that accessibility testing is an innovation driver for solutions to unanticipated problems Click To Tweet. How to run an accessibility test in UserZoom. The post The Importance of Accessibility Testing appeared first on UserZoom. MORE
Those aspects show the difference between crowdsourced testing and beta testing. The conditions surrounding these two test types are very similar. Crowdsourced testing, like beta testing, gives testers real products to use in the real world before release. MORE
This is what makes app Beta Testing so important. App Beta Testing follows a similar process to validating other products with real customers , but there are a few key differences. To counter this, test your product in a spread of unique home environments. MORE
How about this one: imagine running a community of 1,000 active testers when your only beta testing tools are Excel and Outlook. The beta testing tools you use can have a big impact on your efforts – and results. Yet these time sinks are the norm for many test managers. MORE
Centercode has been running beta tests for over 18 years. That’s why we can say this on good authority: beta testing isn’t easy. Like a suit, your beta testing strategy needs to be tailored to fit well. You can’t major in Beta Testing. Testing an app? MORE
[link] I’m continuing with my video series on A/B testing. Is there anything that should be done before you can start A/B testing? Before you can start A/B testing, it’s really important that you have a clear understanding of what you’re actually testing. MORE
Whether it’s the rise of AI, CI/CD, or DevOps, the lines between testing and development are blurring. But as testing methodologies evolve and bleed into development, professional testers are questioning how this evolution will affect their role in product development. MORE
My two favorite moments during a mostly uneventful Super Bowl were 1) Tony Romo circling all of the “punts” and 2) watching the Amazon Beta Testing Program commercial. We now know that Mr. Ford had good reason to not be thrilled about the Beta Test. MORE
From a testing perspective, these workflows also require individuals to enter personal information, such as first name/last name, address, phone number, and so on. Here are a few ways to initiate a test where there are webform fields as part of the experience. Testing on a live website. MORE
The results of the 2018 Customer Validation Industry Survey backed up what we already knew: time is a precious commodity that test managers don’t have a lot of. Responses from over 300 companies showed how and where today’s testing professionals are spending their time. MORE
[link] I’m continuing some short videos about A/B Testing and how to improve it at your company. The transcripts for the video are below: How many rounds of testing should a company plan for before they are successful? I never advise companies that they need to plan for a certain number of rounds of testing. One is it’s really important to have a system in place that enables your company to run a high volume of tests. Most times a test has a 10–20% success rate. MORE
Test strategy is critical to the success of any testing effort – but where do you start? How you involve real users in beta testing? We’ll also look at how beta testing fits into that and the value it brings to both testing professionals and the organizations they work for. MORE
A guide to leading questions, with advice on how you can be mindful of your phrasing and avoid wording pitfalls that can cloud your UX test. Why do leading questions matter for UX testing? Sally went into this UX test already thinking a few things. MORE
Usability Testing – Something Has Always Seemed Off… Something has never seemed quite right to us about how product usability testing is done. No matter what is being tested, from software to cereal to screwdrivers, there is always a herd of elephants – in the room. MORE
It illustrates perfectly why quantitative and qualitative testing (and research) need to go hand-in-hand for a complete picture. Although A/B testing tells you what users are doing, it doesn’t tell you why they are doing it. More importantly, the A/B test result ignores what happens in a portion of your traffic, in segments. For an A/B test to be successful, it must analyze the results of a certain audience segment, not the audience as a whole. MORE
Testing Related Topics Centercode
MARCH 20, 2019
If your company is like most organizations, there’s a team running a mobile beta test to prevent either scenario. If it’s your responsibility to surface these nuances (as it could be if you’re reading this blog post), here are 10 tips you can use when planning your next mobile beta test.
Centercode
APRIL 11, 2019
Whether it’s the rise of AI, CI/CD, or DevOps, the lines between testing and development are blurring. But as testing methodologies evolve and bleed into development, professional testers are questioning how this evolution will affect their role in product development.
Centercode
MARCH 12, 2019
Those aspects show the difference between crowdsourced testing and beta testing. The conditions surrounding these two test types are very similar. Crowdsourced testing, like beta testing, gives testers real products to use in the real world before release.
Centercode
MARCH 5, 2019
This is what makes app Beta Testing so important. App Beta Testing follows a similar process to validating other products with real customers , but there are a few key differences. To counter this, test your product in a spread of unique home environments.
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Centercode
APRIL 2, 2019
Test strategy is critical to the success of any testing effort – but where do you start? How you involve real users in beta testing? We’ll also look at how beta testing fits into that and the value it brings to both testing professionals and the organizations they work for.
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Centercode
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
Centercode has been running beta tests for over 18 years. That’s why we can say this on good authority: beta testing isn’t easy. Like a suit, your beta testing strategy needs to be tailored to fit well. You can’t major in Beta Testing. Testing an app?
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
I’m starting a short series on testing over the next few months. The first few questions are some of the key questions that I’ve been asked regularly around best practices for testing: [link] What’s the most effective method for testing products?
Usersnap
DECEMBER 3, 2018
As a Quality Assurance Manager, you’re fighting daily with testing websites or software during the build process, as well as after launch. With this comparison between automated vs. manual testing, we want to help you to make a quicker decision what to use. What is Manual Testing.
Centercode
APRIL 9, 2019
We may associate the idea of beta testing with Google, Microsoft, video games, and other tech with roots in the late 20th century, but IBM cemented “beta” as far back as the 1950s. The Many Faces of Beta Testing. An industry survey revealed over 90 names for pre-release testing.
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Userzoom
MAY 31, 2018
From a testing perspective, these workflows also require individuals to enter personal information, such as first name/last name, address, phone number, and so on. Here are a few ways to initiate a test where there are webform fields as part of the experience. Testing on a live website.
Mind the Product
JULY 18, 2017
This is the first of two posts that deep dive on A/B testing, expanding on a talk I gave at Google Playtime 2016 in London. In this post I share some of the learnings we’ve had after running 60+ A/B tests at Peak , looking at each step of the A/B testing cycle in turn.
Centercode
JANUARY 22, 2019
The results of the 2018 Customer Validation Industry Survey backed up what we already knew: time is a precious commodity that test managers don’t have a lot of. Responses from over 300 companies showed how and where today’s testing professionals are spending their time.
280 Group
JULY 26, 2017
Fortunately Bill is here to provide us with three tests that.[continue The post 3 Tests for Great Product Messaging appeared first on 280 Group Product Management. In this new video and blog post we discuss something that is exceedingly important in the product world: messaging.
Speaker: Tim Herbig, Director, iridion
As a product manager, you probably know specific ways to gather data to inform your product decisions, like the ever-popular A/B test. What about the times when it doesn't make sense to A/B test, because you have too small a sample size?
Centercode
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
How about this one: imagine running a community of 1,000 active testers when your only beta testing tools are Excel and Outlook. The beta testing tools you use can have a big impact on your efforts – and results. Yet these time sinks are the norm for many test managers.
Mind the Product
JULY 27, 2017
This is the second of two posts that deep dive on A/B tests, expanding on a talk I gave at Google Playtime 2016 in London. As mentioned in the first post, if you plan to run a lot of A/B tests then you should think about using a document to store test information, which I call the tracker.
Userzoom
MAY 23, 2018
Exploring the basics of creating and testing UX prototypes. UX designers and researchers follow an iterative process – testing pieces and versions of the product and making improvements along the way, until, in the end, you’ve got a thoughtful and useful product that people love.
The Product Coalition
MARCH 18, 2019
[link] I’m continuing some short videos about A/B Testing and how to improve it at your company. The transcripts for the video are below: How many rounds of testing should a company plan for before they are successful? I never advise companies that they need to plan for a certain number of rounds of testing. One is it’s really important to have a system in place that enables your company to run a high volume of tests. Most times a test has a 10–20% success rate.
Speaker: John Little, Head of Product Marketing, Centercode
TryMyUI
SEPTEMBER 28, 2018
With the addition of iOS mobile app testing, TryMyUI now offers the ability to test any product on any device. Read on to learn how our iOS user testing works, and what you need to know to get started. The post Test iOS mobile apps with TryMyUI! Features TryMyUI Mobile App Mobile Testing Remote User Testingappeared first on TryMyUI Blog.
The Product Coalition
APRIL 16, 2019
[link] I’m continuing with my video series on A/B testing. Is there anything that should be done before you can start A/B testing? Before you can start A/B testing, it’s really important that you have a clear understanding of what you’re actually testing.
Userzoom
AUGUST 17, 2017
Industry leaders learned that accessibility testing is an innovation driver for solutions to unanticipated problems Click To Tweet. How to run an accessibility test in UserZoom. The post The Importance of Accessibility Testing appeared first on UserZoom.
Under10 Playbook
JANUARY 31, 2018
Quality testing identifies anomalies or defects that are not working as expected. “Alpha” is a testing phase where a release candidate (or potentially shippable increment) is tested on client systems (such as devices and browsers) and data by VENDOR employees.
Speaker: Teresa Torres, Product Discovery Coach, Product Talk
We need to know what to prototype and when, who to test our prototypes with, and how to conduct those tests in a way to get reliable feedback. When you think of "rapid prototyping", what comes to mind?
Amplitude
OCTOBER 25, 2017
Today, it’s common to hear people talk about testing early-stage products like it’s a bad thing. You can’t build a better product just by A/B testing button colors, no. Clarify and test your company’s values. You do this through testing.
Userzoom
JUNE 21, 2018
A guide to leading questions, with advice on how you can be mindful of your phrasing and avoid wording pitfalls that can cloud your UX test. Why do leading questions matter for UX testing? Sally went into this UX test already thinking a few things.
Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 7, 2018
It illustrates perfectly why quantitative and qualitative testing (and research) need to go hand-in-hand for a complete picture. Although A/B testing tells you what users are doing, it doesn’t tell you why they are doing it. More importantly, the A/B test result ignores what happens in a portion of your traffic, in segments. For an A/B test to be successful, it must analyze the results of a certain audience segment, not the audience as a whole.
Centercode
JANUARY 15, 2019
Of those respondents, nearly 50% of those managing customer testing programs were product managers. On the flip side, this also means that the challenges faced by product managers, like time constraints and stakeholder misalignment, are mirrored in their customer testing programs.
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bpma ProductHub
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Usability Testing – Something Has Always Seemed Off… Something has never seemed quite right to us about how product usability testing is done. No matter what is being tested, from software to cereal to screwdrivers, there is always a herd of elephants – in the room.
Modus Create
JANUARY 11, 2019
The Screenplay Test Design Pattern, also known as the Flow Pattern, has been around since 2007 and is brilliantly described by Antony Marcano, Andy Palmer, Jan Molak and John Ferguson Smart in their article Page Objects Refactored: SOLID Steps to the Screenplay/Journey Pattern. The main issue is that the commonly used Page Object pattern can introduce a high maintenance cost if the test automation solution grows.
TryMyUI
JULY 31, 2018
Here are 5 things you'll learn when you test users' first impressions of your site. The post 5 things you learn from a website impression test appeared first on TryMyUI Blog. Practicing UX Research TryMyUI Usability Gallery First Impression Impression Testing Landing pages UX Design
Centercode
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
My two favorite moments during a mostly uneventful Super Bowl were 1) Tony Romo circling all of the “punts” and 2) watching the Amazon Beta Testing Program commercial. We now know that Mr. Ford had good reason to not be thrilled about the Beta Test.
The Product Coalition
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
It illustrates perfectly why quantitative and qualitative testing (and research) need to go hand-in-hand for a complete picture. Although A/B testing tells you what users are doing, it doesn’t tell you why they are doing it. Analyze your test across key segments to see this.
Nir Eyal
AUGUST 15, 2016
Changing user habits isn’t easy — but understanding how to conduct Habit Testing will increase your odds of success. In this video, I provide a brief introduction to the three steps of Habit Testing.
UX Studio
SEPTEMBER 3, 2018
UX copywriting and user testing? But you don’t have to start from scratch when it comes to testing content and microcopy. We, at UX studio , collected three methods that provide more insights than general AB testing. What are the limitations of A/B testing? Take the test!
Userzoom
APRIL 19, 2018
Hence we’re bringing you this series of weekly UX beginner’s guides, aimed to help all the newbies of the UX testing world. This week: tree-testing! Here we’ll be answering the following questions: what is tree testing? How do I run my own tree testing?
Under10 Playbook
NOVEMBER 2, 2016
Most product managers recognize the value of user testing. So it is often hard to fit in testing and design iteration before the sprint deadline. Steven Cohn , the Founder of Validately and a user testing expert, gives some practical advice on how to balance the time pressures of product management and conducting proper user testing. (SJ Why should a product team allocate its limited time to user testing? SJ: What are the different testing options?
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