5 Tips to Motivate At Home Product Testers
Before asking “How do I motivate at home product testers?,” we need to assess the importance of at home product testing. With the constant iterations…
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Essential Steps For Testing Technologies: Dos and Dont’s
Globalme is a language and technology company – we do localization, data collection, and testing for all kinds of emerging tech. This includes anything from…
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How Did We Test Cortana, Google Now & Siri in Foreign Languages?
Last weekend we did a guest post for VentureBeat comparing Siri, Cortana and Google Now in five different languages – English, French, Italian, German and Mandarin. We…
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The Key Elements of Usability Testing: Usability Testing is Useless. Unless…
If you clicked on this post, chances are you don’t need me to tell you that usability testing is important. But just in case you…
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Localization Testing Tools – My Favorite Tools for Localization Engineering & QA
Perhaps I should have titled this post “Tools to Assist Localization Testing” as I don’t think there is a tool developed particularly for localization testing. However, since Localization Testing has such a broad definition, one needs a broad set of tools to do the job efficiently. Obviously the tools that need to be used for web localization testing vs. documentation review will be different, and some tools will only apply to particular roles. Localization Engineers do more automation while Localization Testers typically focus on reporting.
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Analyzing Usability Data: How usable is your usability data?
Software usability testing is great for generating lots of data. If you take that data and feed it back to your developers, you’ll get an improved product, and that’s great. It’s the most important reason for testing.
But if you’re going to invest in testing, then you can, and should, try to get more.
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Usability Testing Data: Don’t Limit Your Data Collection Options
If you’re new to usability testing, the information available can be very technical and kind of confusing. It’s hard to know what you’ll need to invest, and what you can expect to get out of it at the end. One of the most important questions to answer is: What kinds of information should you get from your testers? Here are some ideas to get you started.
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How to Motivate Usability Testers in 5 Minutes or Less
When you work with an emerging technology like speech recognition, there is lots of unknown territory. So when we executed usability testing for data collection last fall – with one thousand people in just eight weeks! – we had to make sure we provided enough guidance, but at the same time stay unobtrusive.
We also had to figure out how to motivate people quickly. Here are the most important things we learned.
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What is the Best Definition of Localization Testing
Since people seem to be eager to learn more about localization testing, we’ve decided to run a series to share our knowledge, based on the top 10 Google Suggest queries.
Want to learn more about localization testing? Read on!
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The Localization Testing Checklist
If you’ve embarked on the process of localization testing, you might find yourself getting lost quickly. There are many steps to follow, and it’s important not to skip any if you want your project delivered on time and on budget.
To help you through it, we’re providing a handy checklist that will guide you through the process.
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Localization QA Testers: Guardians of Quality
Since I manage a large localization testing team and continuously hire new members, I’m often asked to explain how the different roles interact and what they’re responsible for.
Today I want to focus on localization QA testers.
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