Re: [Usability] UI engineering: use a database of user data

[Mathieu Stumpf <psychoslave culture-libre org>]

Le 2013-06-03 16:38, Bastien Nocera a écrit :
> On Mon, 2013-06-03 at 15:32 +0200, Mathieu Stumpf wrote:
> > Le 2013-06-03 07:48, Luc Pionchon a écrit :
> > > Having “real life” datasets help to see how the software scales in
> > > real environment.
> > >
> > > In the case of an Artist list, as an example, you may have 50 
> > artists
> > > in your own music library. *Plus*, if you have 10 compilations 
> > (movie
> > > soundtrack? dance compilation?) with each 30 individual artists , 
> > and
> > > tadam… +300, your artist list is flooded with artists (whom you 
> > never
> > > heard) with a single track. Your artist list becomes useless,
> > > although
> > > it looked so nice and clean and easy on the mockups.
> >
> > There are plenty of good free/libre songs out there, you know?[1]
>
> Except that you don't want to download 100 GB of songs to test a
> software. Blank songs would compress to almost nothing, and more or 
> less
> to the size of the metadata once tarball'ed up. It should be possible 
> to
> offer tens of thousands of songs with a download size in megs, not 
> gigs.
>
> The construction of good test cases with the metdata is more 
> important
> than the contents of the files.

Hopefuly, you mean that only in the very specific case of a software 
design process. ;)

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