Test Participant

Definition

Test Participant

the role that is played when a person takes a usability test of a systems, applications, or user interface prototype

Responsibilities

The typical role-specific responsibilities of a Test Participant are to:

• Follow the usability test directions given by the test monitor.
• Use the work product under test while being observed (and possibly recorded).
• Answer any questionaires completely truthfully.

Test participants typically inherit the general role responsibilities from the role process component.

Expertise

To fulfill these responsibilities, test participants typically should have the following expertise, training, and experience:

• Varies from endeavor to endeavor, and depends on the associated user profile.

Tasks

Test participants typically perform the following role-specific tasks in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:

• Test Execution

Test participants typically inherit common role tasks from the role process component.

Organizations

Test participant typically perform these tasks as members of the following organizations:

• Customer Organization
• User Organization

Work Products

As members of these teams, test participants typically produce all or part of the following work products:

• Test Work Products:
  • Usability Test Screening Questionnaire (answers)
  • Usability Pretest Questionnaire (answers)
  • Usability Posttest Questionnaire (answers)

Guidelines

• Test participants need not be members of any organization, but rather may be members of the public that are representative of a class of users.
• This role typically inherits the common team guidelines from the roles process component.