Month: April 2018
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6 Reasons Why The Chrome Link Underline Change is Not So Hot
Google embraced a new CSS text property and made it the default Chrome link underline style in its Chrome browsers. This may not have been the right move. A few months ago, I was looking at a web page (minding my own business) when I noticed that the links looked odd to me. They were […]
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What is a Longitudinal Study in Software User Testing?
If a regular user test gives you a snapshot, then a longitudinal study provides you with a time-lapse video. If you want a not-clever mnemonic for remembering what makes a test “longitudinal”, just focus on the word “long”. A longitudinal study (or longitudinal testing) is a type of research that collects data from the same […]
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A Harrowing Tale of User Acceptance Testing
My first encounter with user acceptance testing will scare you straight. Recently, I wrote an article about user acceptance testing (UAT) and was reminded of my very first encounter with validation testing on a software project. Here is that story as I remember it. WARNING: You may want to skip this story if the thought of wasted […]
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User Acceptance Testing (UAT): What It Is, and What It Shouldn’t Be.
If you read one article describing User Acceptance Testing (UAT), you’ll walk away with a solid understanding of what it’s all about. If you read 5 or more articles, you might just wind up confused. That’s because “User Acceptance Testing” is one of those annoyingly overloaded terms that means different things to different organizations. Now, […]
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