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What do you think about synthetic users for user testing?
User testing is important, but let’s be honest—it’s often a pain. Recruiting is slow, people flake, and results can be all over the place.
Lately I’ve been thinking: what if we could simulate real users instead? Like, agents that reflect actual roles, behaviors, and decision-making patterns.
Would you trust insights from that kind of setup?
Genuinely curious what others think.
- hamhead27 1y agoI think the ideal place this would add value is pre-launch of a feature or MVP. With enough randomization and "thought" patterns to test out your features it could be a very novel approach to testing that differs from existing load testing & integration testing. Randomization is the key though, the synthetic users would need to be capable of rooting out those random edge cases that you can only find by typically using a product "incorrectly". Cool idea though!
- huguini 1y agothis exists: https://www.syntheticusers.com/ https://www.syntheticusers.com/