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If you're suggesting that this is done out of selfishness or intellectual fervor then I don't think that's true. I wouldn't say they "prefer" it but it's certai
by zxzax 5y ago
If you're suggesting that this is done out of selfishness or intellectual fervor then I don't think that's true. I wouldn't say they "prefer" it but it's certainly easier and more economical for a skilled person to contribute to those tools because the developers and the users are the same group of people.
Once you decide you need to do user testing and hardware testing, the cost shoots up. You need to start procuring hardware and finding a place for it to live so automated tests can run on it all the time. That costs money. You need to bring in a lot more testers which requires project management and/or volunteer coordinators. Usually that costs money too. Everything you do needs to go through more stages of design review which also requires extra coordination and project management. These are real things you can have but someone's got to foot the bill.
- matkoniecz 5y ago> Once you decide you need to do user testing and hardware testing, the cost shoots up. It is not so bad. Take three people who never used given software, ask them to do the most basic tasks. And fix the most common problems. Your (and mine) software is much harder to use than you expect. You do not need UI/UX people, massive scale testing to fix low hanging fruit.
- zxzax 5y agoJust my experience, three people is not a big enough sample size for most projects. You will get very biased opinions if you go with that. That may be ok if you have a very niche project and you only ask some people in that niche.
- matkoniecz 5y agoOr when you have obvious problems! Take it with pile of salt, I am not some big expert. I just did it with some projects. But it seems to me that in nearly all cases there are glaring issues that would be detected with any amount of testing at all.
- bmn__ 5y ago> You will get very biased opinions [with 3 testers] Your anecdote is atypical. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/why-you-only-need-to-test-with-5-users/ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/why-you-only-need-to-test-w...