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+ | Title = {A Large-scale Comparative Study of Beta Testers and Regular Users}, | ||
+ | Author = {Vlasta Stavova and Lenka Dedkova and Martin Ukrop and Vashek Matyas}, | ||
+ | Journal = {Communications of the ACM}, | ||
+ | Year = {2018}, | ||
+ | Volume = {61}, | ||
+ | Number = {2}, | ||
+ | Pages = {64--71}, | ||
+ | Publisher = {ACM}, | ||
+ | Doi = {10.1145/ | ||
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- | title = {A large-scale comparative study of beta testers and standard users}, | + | |
- | author = {Vlasta Stavova and Lenka Dedkova and Martin Ukrop and Vashek Matyas}, | + | |
- | journal = {To appear in Communications of ACM}, | + | |
- | year = {2018}, | + | |
- | keywords = {usablesec, ESET}, | + | |
- | organization = {ACM}, | + | |
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* **Identifying usability issues**\\ When testing international products, ensure beta testers are culturally representative of regular users to help identify potential localization and cultural usability issues. | * **Identifying usability issues**\\ When testing international products, ensure beta testers are culturally representative of regular users to help identify potential localization and cultural usability issues. | ||
* **Ensuring representation**\\ Most important, testers should be representative of regular users. Keep checking that this is the case or pursue additional rigorous analyses to reach the most credible and applicable conclusions possible. | * **Ensuring representation**\\ Most important, testers should be representative of regular users. Keep checking that this is the case or pursue additional rigorous analyses to reach the most credible and applicable conclusions possible. | ||
- | ===== Summary ===== | ||
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- | Beta testers are the first end users outside a software company to use its product. They have been used for decades and are rightly credited not only with finding and reporting bugs, but also with improving general product usability through their feedback and/or the ways they use the product. | ||
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- | In this paper, we investigate whether beta testers represent standard users well enough to allow for the extrapolation of testing data to standard users. We have investigated records of beta testers and standard users of home security solution developed by the IT security software provider ESET. With more than 600 000 participants from more than 180 countries, we present what we believe to be the first large-scale comparison between standard users and beta testers. | ||
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- | We compared several aspects of both populations, | ||
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- | We conclude that - at least in our study - beta users represent standard users well in terms of hardware and operating system in large scale beta testing. However, populations differ significantly in the distribution of users and testers between countries. This may cause a problem when a testing includes localization and usability issues that may be influenced by regional differences. | ||
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