[Sigia-l] Re: Automated User Testing

[mfg345 at aol.com]

Yes, sorry for not being clearer about that initially. What I meant 
when I referred to "Automated User Testing" was that the test was 
performed automatically - users are guided through a series of tasks 
and prompted to answer questions about intent and feedback through some 
wizard like interface and rather than guided through and prompted by a 
live moderator. I would obviously want to test real, not imaginary 
users.

Michael

-----Original Message-----
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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