At the beginning of October, the testing group spent time in the Usability Lab getting accustomed to the lab.
The first day Dr. Still, the manager of the Usability Lab, showed us the entire lab. He explained the recording equipment, the audio equipment, the monitoring equipment, the cameras, the microphones, and the camtasia software on the computers.
Our second day in the lab we tested the equipment and recorded everything for the testing environment section of the test plan.
On October 11, 2007, the day of our first walk through, we tested our current test plan on Dan Stinnet. We found that the recording process went smoothly, but our test plan was inadequate. We needed a facilitator script, a facilitator checklist, an observation form, a set up/break down checklist, a pre-test questionnaire, a post-test questionnaire, and a screening test. We also discovered our current test questions needed to be revised. I volunteered to do the facilitator script and the facilitator checklist. Chris Flores volunteered to do the set up/break down checklist. Also the Bryony assigned members of her group to complete the screening questionnaire and the post test questionnaire.
On October 16 we went over the test plan as a whole class. Dr. Barker made helpful suggestions to improve our current test plan, including: changing the test questions to be more specific, making the testing environment section more general, making the task list chart. Kyle, the testing group manager, was unable to make this class, so I had to step in to take his place. I worked closely with Bryony, the sponsor and participant group manager, and Allison, the writing and editing manager, to organize the revision of the test plan.
This was an extremely hectic day. I had to work with two members of the editing and writing group to decide which questions we should use on the test plan. Also, we created the task chart for the questions we used. At the same time I had to delegate certain tasks to the other members of my group.
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