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

[Luc Pionchon <pionchon luc gmail com>]

On 3 June 2013 18:08, Mathieu Stumpf <psychoslave culture-libre org> wrote:
> 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.

yes, exactly.



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

yes, it is about software design.

For music, the audio stream is not needed. The metadata is.
Same for videos.