[Sigia-l] Automated User Testing

[Jared M. Spool]

At 12:15 PM 11/15/2005, tOM Trottier wrote:
>How could automated testing test time on page,
>success  rate/abandonment, paths, etc ? Surely
>these are only relevant to  human users.

I initially interpreted "automated testing tool" to be what you seem to be 
thinking: a tool that simulates users.

As I read the thread, I'm thinking the original poster was actually asking 
about "automated test data collection" tools, like those offered by Keynote 
(formerly Vividence and NetRaker). These have real users. It's the data 
that's collected.

Or maybe I'm wrong.

Jared


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