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So what shall your testers do with the Prototype? You need to give them some tasks they are going to do. So you should follow some simple steps: | So what shall your testers do with the Prototype? You need to give them some tasks they are going to do. So you should follow some simple steps: | ||
* Write down typical tasks one can resolve using your product. This is a little brainstorming. | * Write down typical tasks one can resolve using your product. This is a little brainstorming. | ||
* Out of the tasks you wrote down you choose the ones that you feel are typical for your software and crucial for using it. | * Out of the tasks you wrote down you choose the ones that you feel are typical for your software and crucial for using it. If you have someone at hand who is firm in the subject your users are working in you can ask for a countercheck on realism. | ||
'''Write the tasks''' | '''Write the tasks''' | ||
* You need to think about a suitable context for your tasks. So don't just write: "import the pictures from the SD card into the Program" but something like "You are a Photographer and just finished shooting. Please import the pictures into the program for doing further work with them" | * You need to think about a suitable context for your tasks. So don't just write: "import the pictures from the SD card into the Program" but something like "You are a Photographer and just finished shooting. Please import the pictures into the program for doing further work with them" | ||
* It needs to be clear when a task is finished. So don't write any open ended tasks but one that have a clear goal and condition one needs to reach. | * It needs to be clear when a task is finished. So don't write any open ended tasks but one that have a clear goal and condition one needs to reach. | ||
E.g. the example above could be improved by changing the end to "Please import the pictures into the program, so that you can see the images thumbnails in the program" | E.g. the example above could be improved by changing the end to "Please import the pictures into the program, so that you can see the images thumbnails in the program" | ||
* Use language that is easy to understand. If the task's description is not comprehensible nobody can test. | * Use language that is easy to understand. If the task's description is not comprehensible nobody can test. | ||
===Build a Paper-Prototype=== | ===Build a Paper-Prototype=== | ||