Usability Engineering Test Plan Assignment

Making a Test plan for scribd website.

Test plan for larger user study (Scribd website): How to prepare a test plan:

Step 1: Gather information and identify tasks. Identify user profiles, market segments and aspects of the website that you will test.

Step 2: Screeners, tasks and scenarios Use the user profiles and draft a screener / questionnaire to identify the right participant in your test. Focus on the unique attributes that the user must have Define tasks that the users you recruit will perform. Please note that if the user requires an account, you must provide the account details to the user and avoid asking the user to create a new account. The task must not specify to log in, this is a step that the user decides to take if found necessary. Step 3: Test script, Observation Sheet and Consent Form Prepare:

• A script to be read by the facilitator to the participant on the day of the test. The script must welcome the participant and provide them with the necessary information about the test
• An observation sheet to note down your observation during the test
• A consent form to be filled and signed by the participant

Step 4: Checking Do a run-through of the entire test to ensure that it will take no more than 45 minutes of the user's time. Assume that the tasks will take 3-10 times the time an expert takes to do the task.

Table of contents:

Section 1 - Participant and Recruitment Summary

Section 2 - Facilitator script

Section 3 - Screener and Pre-Test Questionnaires

Section 4 - Post-Test Questionnaire

Section 5 - Consent Form

Section 6 - User Task Description

Section 7 - User Task Sheets (for participants)

Section 8 - Source Documents

Need only section 2, section 3 and section 8 to be completed in the test plan.

SECTION 2: FACILITATOR SCRIPT

Create or adapt a script to read to the participants at the start of the usability test. Include task specific questions you might ask at the completion of each task. If you use a publically available script remember to reference your source.

The facilitator script must include the following -

• Participant introduction.
• Testing the website and not the participant's abilities.
• Video recording and the distribution and usage of it.
• Duration of the test, the number of tasks, testing environment.
• Participant can withdraw at any time, ask questions and encouraged to think aloud.
• If you have used an external source / template, please reference the script in Section 8.

SECTION 3: SCREENER & PRE-TEST QUESTIONNAIRE

Includes your screener and pre-test questionnaire. Your screener questionnaire should contain sufficient queries to identify your target participant. The pre-test questions (usually included as part of the screener questionnaire) are used to compare characteristics of eligible users. If you adapt an existing questionnaire remember to reference your source.

• Screening questions used to identify the eligible participant (Section 1)
• Pre-test questions gather relevant information that may be useful for defining user characteristics
• If you have used an external source / template, please reference the script in Section 8

SECTION 8: SOURCE DOCUMENTS - List the section and the reference used.

If you use templates from a source, reference that source here.

Section 2: Test Summary

Test summary questions were adapted from parts of the CHEAN Ethics Application Form for Negligible Risk.

Section 5: Consent Form

The consent form was adapted from two sources:

• Usability Test Documents from the University of Washington
• (2009) Bailey, G; Baillargeon, T; Barragree. C.D. Handbook on Developing Online Curriculum Materials for Teachers: Lessons From Museum Education Partnerships. Gerald Bailey, Tara Baillargeon, Cari D. Barragree (page 62).

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