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Ma3oxuct
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 Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:34 am Post subject: Be the first to test Tsk (Google Summer of Code project) |
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Hi everyone,
I am the one working on this project: http://code.google.com/soc/gentoo/appinfo.html?csaid=2881CA66D3587EA2 .
I am in the middle of coding the web interface and before I start to finalize it (by making it pretty and colorful), I need to see the extent to which the interface, in its current state, is usable. I will collect all of feedback I get and use it to improve the interface. The feedback I receive will also help me determine what I should put into the help page I might need to create.
The usability test consists of the following simple tasks. Complete as many or few as you wish and comment on any difficulties or annoyances you encounter. If you want to be extra helpful, you can time how long it takes you to complete each task. If you encounter things that do not work, you might want to check here for stuff that I know does not work (particularly, advanced search is not yet implemented).
Go here to access the interface (you'll have to accept my ssl certificate): https://afalko.homelinux.net/tskdemo/
Task #1: Register a user name for yourself.
Task #2: Add a task and link it to a bug in Gentoo's bugzilla.
Task #3: Add another task, but this time link to a non-Gentoo bugzilla url.
Task #4: Permanently change your preferences. So that 10 tasks are displayed on the front page.
Task #5: Find all tasks submitted by you.
Task #6: Modify the description of one of your tasks.
Task #7: Mark one of your tasks to another status.
Task #8: Delete one of your tasks.
Task #9: Take a random task and change its status.
Task #10: Find all tasks that have "mysql" in the description.
Task #11: Place 20 votes for a task or tasks.
Task #12: Subtract 20 votes from a task or tasks.
Task #13: Add all of your remaining voting points to the task with the least of amount of votes (if more than one, pick one).
Task #14: Log out and find all tasks you submitted.
Task #15: Log back in and add another task, but one which will alphabetically be ahead of the others (hint: sort by description and then add a new task).
Task #16: Change your password.
Task #17: Get a password reminder set to you. (Log out first.)
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tanderson
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:18 pm Post subject: |
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Hi, I saw this project a while ago and was really excited about it. Great idea!
I fail on Task #1. I register, then it redirects me to verify.cgi. (A note while here.....it should tell the user that it e-mailed a verification code.) I got my e-mail and it said:
As you can see it doesn't contain any code whatsoever...... 
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steveL
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:43 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
This seems like a really good idea, similar to WINE bug triage. So I tried registering and got the following mail:
An empty value in the interface didn't work, so I can't do anything else with the bugzilla.
HTH, and good luck with it! |
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tanderson
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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So it wasn't just me! 
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Ma3oxuct
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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 Should be fixed. That's what happens when you test things on only one email.
| gentoofan23 wrote: | | ...it redirects me to verify.cgi. (A note while here.....it should tell the user that it e-mailed a verification code.) |
Thanks! I added a note. |
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Vininim
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| Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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searching for my own tasks doesn't work, and advanced search page doesn't exist
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Ma3oxuct
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 5:36 am Post subject: |
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| Vininim wrote: | | searching for my own tasks doesn't work, and advanced search page doesn't exist |
Thanks for testing!
Great thing you decided to try a username with the '@' symbol.....I fixed a bug as a result  .
The advanced search is on my todo list. |
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radagast
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 12:57 pm Post subject: worked fine for me |
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well i didn't try anything especially tricky,
and i only made one task instead of three like you suggested,
but the steps all worked fine for me. |
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microtechno
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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Hi
I am not sure what i am doing but anyways
-Setting the display to 10, then modifying the name i came back and it was 5 again.
This is the same going from user to main.
-Task #7: Mark one of your tasks to new status.
There would appear not to be a 'new'.
-When subraction voting points they come off of the persons points
Should they not come back to your points.
-Got go Task #15, but then couldnt log back in. Said that passwd and usernae didnt match. I know that it wasnt me
(tried it a few times  )
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Ma3oxuct
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the feedback microtechno! Thanks for testing radagast!
| microtechno wrote: | -Setting the display to 10, then modifying the name i came back and it was 5 again.
This is the same going from user to main.
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Looks like I over-looked that....will make the setting of that preference last over the entire session.
| microtechno wrote: | -Task #7: Mark one of your tasks to new status.
There would appear not to be a 'new'.
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Those were bad instructions on my part...I should have said: "Mark one of your tasks to another status."
| microtechno wrote: | -When subraction voting points they come off of the persons points
Should they not come back to your points.
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You are subtracting points from the task. You are losing points because lowering the ranking on one indirectly raises the ranking of other tasks. I'll have this in the help help page.
| microtechno wrote: | -Got go Task #15, but then couldnt log back in. Said that passwd and usernae didnt match. I know that it wasnt me
(tried it a few times )
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Looks like I need to fix the logout page. I have been able to reproduce.
Great feedback microtechno, thanks again. |
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microtechno
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| Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 12:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Nah thats cool. I am a bit of a programmer so I know how annoying finding bugs are. |
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Ma3oxuct
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| Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:15 am Post subject: |
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Speaking of bugs...I just fixed a really dumb one: I created a daemon that checks the database for users who have not verified in three days and deletes then.....to make a long story short the daemon was doing the exact opposite  . |
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tanderson
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| Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:34 am Post subject: |
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Ok, really long time since I started testing.....but!
it is working quite nicely. Good work!
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| Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 11:45 pm Post subject: |
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I am now almost done. I'd appreciate some feedback on the color choices; I tried to make the colors Gentoo-ish.
Here is what corresponds to what color:
Reported: Light green
Working: Light blue
Abandoned: Red
CommitReady: Slightly darker green
Committing: Slightly darker blue
Committed: Plain ol' white
In case you are too lazy to scroll up: https://afalko.homelinux.net/tskdemo/index.cgi |
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 3:10 am Post subject: |
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| Ma3oxuct wrote: | I am now almost done. I'd appreciate some feedback on the color choices; I tried to make the colors Gentoo-ish.
Here is what corresponds to what color:
Reported: Light green
Working: Light blue
Abandoned: Red
CommitReady: Slightly darker green
Committing: Slightly darker blue
Committed: Plain ol' white
In case you are too lazy to scroll up: https://afalko.homelinux.net/tskdemo/index.cgi |
1) Go with lighter background colours. Would make it much easier to read and the current contrast between different rows is quite annoying.
2) Either make the hover effect more subtle, or get rid of it completely.
3) Give the links a colour, rather than going with the usually ugly browser defaults.
4) For the Previous/Next links, either hide them when there are no other pages in that direction, or make them not links.
5) Why do you have an empty column at the end?
6) If you are going to have a static width, you should probably center the page. Although, I personally would go with a more fluid design, using either em or percentages.
7) Find a way to combine the Votes and Vote columns if possible.
That's all for now.
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Ma3oxuct
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:33 am Post subject: |
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| omp wrote: |
1) Go with lighter background colours. Would make it much easier to read and the current contrast between different rows is quite annoying.
2) Either make the hover effect more subtle, or get rid of it completely.
3) Give the links a colour, rather than going with the usually ugly browser defaults.
4) For the Previous/Next links, either hide them when there are no other pages in that direction, or make them not links.
5) Why do you have an empty column at the end?
6) If you are going to have a static width, you should probably center the page. Although, I personally would go with a more fluid design, using either em or percentages.
7) Find a way to combine the Votes and Vote columns if possible.
That's all for now. |
Thanks for the feedback!
1) I've fixed the colors up a bit: made everything grey.
2) Hover effect made much more subtle; I hope its good enough now. I have to fix hover effect on links in rows though.
3) Made the links, Gentoo forums color; consistent with trying to make it Gentoo-ish I hope.
4) Will fix as soon as I can.
5) The empty column appears for non-registered users; registered users see a "submit" button instead.
6) I have to re-think this.
7) Also will be thinking how best to do this. |
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 1:26 am Post subject: |
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I think making everything grey isn't the best solution. maybe you could use light grey/blue/green/red/whatever. With colors one can more easily see, what's up with a task.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 1:43 am Post subject: |
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| Made it lighter. Thanks Thargor. As you may have already noticed, I really suck with colors |
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:03 am Post subject: |
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Those are all "testing" links....i.e. I just typed something random stuff for the URLs to get a bunch of random task up to test sorting. You won't see stuff like that when the interface is unleashed on the world  .
Just fixed the next and previous link to blank out if there is no where to go. |
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:35 am Post subject: |
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I just completed all the task and it worked fine for me
Just a small "bug":
When I registered first time, I accidentally used 'a!**********' as my password. It did not complain, but i was not able to log in, since it was not alpha-numerical. The verification mail told me that my password was 'a', but this did not work either, so I assigned a new user. I guess when registering a new user the password should immediately be checked if it is alpha-numerical.
You're project sound well, keep the good work on! |
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Ma3oxuct
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 4:01 am Post subject: |
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| eruvaer_ohta wrote: | I just completed all the task and it worked fine for me
Just a small "bug":
When I registered first time, I accidentally used 'a!**********' as my password. It did not complain, but i was not able to log in, since it was not alpha-numerical. The verification mail told me that my password was 'a', but this did not work either, so I assigned a new user. I guess when registering a new user the password should immediately be checked if it is alpha-numerical.
You're project sound well, keep the good work on! |
I think I'm going to remove the alpha-numeric requirement in the next few days for both username and password. Thanks putting stress on the interface .
Edit: Fixed things up to allow non-alphanumeric characters for both username and password. |
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Ma3oxuct
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| Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 12:56 am Post subject: |
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| Ma3oxuct wrote: | | omp wrote: |
1) Go with lighter background colours. Would make it much easier to read and the current contrast between different rows is quite annoying.
2) Either make the hover effect more subtle, or get rid of it completely.
3) Give the links a colour, rather than going with the usually ugly browser defaults.
4) For the Previous/Next links, either hide them when there are no other pages in that direction, or make them not links.
5) Why do you have an empty column at the end?
6) If you are going to have a static width, you should probably center the page. Although, I personally would go with a more fluid design, using either em or percentages.
7) Find a way to combine the Votes and Vote columns if possible.
That's all for now. |
Thanks for the feedback!
1) I've fixed the colors up a bit: made everything grey.
2) Hover effect made much more subtle; I hope its good enough now. I have to fix hover effect on links in rows though.
3) Made the links, Gentoo forums color; consistent with trying to make it Gentoo-ish I hope.
4) Will fix as soon as I can.
5) The empty column appears for non-registered users; registered users see a "submit" button instead.
6) I have to re-think this.
7) Also will be thinking how best to do this. |
Took off the static widths...and made lots of changes. The interface should now be a lot more confusing. Thanks for the feedback everyone. |
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