Giving something to your mother to test is a great way to see how usable your application is. If someone who doesn’t spend her day at a computer and has little specialist knowledge can use LeaveBooker, chances are others will too.
Also, if she can’t use LeaveBooker, chances are others will have difficulties too.
So last weekend [...]
Archive for July, 2008
User Interface Testing
July 26, 2008
Making a Demo Video
July 14, 2008
We’re in the final stages of testing LeaveBooker and I’m trying to ensure that the screenshots, etc. on the marketing pages reflect the latest version. I’m also trying to make a demo video to provide a visitor with a quick audiovisual introduction to LeaveBooker.
My first attempt failed dismally! This was because I had not prepared [...]
Closer and Closer
July 6, 2008
I’m sitting watching Wimbledon. I live in Wimbledon so it’s that much closer. My girlfriend and I went last week, but only with a ticket for the smaller courts. It was still fantastic though.
The major changes I have made to LeaveBooker over the past week affected a significant number of portions of the system. This [...]
A Week of Major Work
July 2, 2008
In the past week I’ve changed LeaveBooker to use an organisational chart to specify approvers rather than having an approval chain per team. I’ve also done away with departments and teams completely. It’s been more work than I anticipated and has affected most parts of the system.
This means that we have to retest a whole [...]
