Hi folks,
I consulted (with Jaroslav Reznik) my participation and role at
DevConf.cz and I should take a local organization. I should also recruit
participants for the usability tests (as part of my diploma thesis)
because DevConf participants will be too skilled. For this reason it
would be good prepare profiles of suitable users (groups of users) and
take account of it in the survey.
I made my own very rough draft of survey before I read Stephanie's draft
(to not be influenced):
- Gender
- Age range (categories: 18-26 / ...)
- Education attainment
- Employment (position, company size, how long have you been involved,...)
- Ethnicity
- Computer and Internet experience
- Linux (administration) experience
- Fedora or some other Anaconda based distribution experience
(especially installation)
- (new Anaconda (Fedora 18) experience)
There are some extra areas of questions in my rough draft. Most of them
are linked to the user profiles (I mentioned earlier). Maybe I should
add appropriate questions to the local (Czech) version of survey.
The rest of my draft is very similar to Stephanie's draft. Therefore, I
have no objection to the type of questions. I would only clarify some
terms in the survey. I think it is important to be unambiguous about the
meaning of terms like “Novice”, “Moderate” or “Advanced”. Questions
should be more specific and less subjective. We could use frequency
and/or time to measure of experience.
Filip
4.1.2013 17:16, Máirín Duffy wrote:
Hi folks,
I'd like to introduce you to two new contributors who are going to be
helping us put the new Anaconda UI through some usability tests:
- Meet Stephanie (cc'ed), who is my UX intern through the Outreach
Program for Women [1] for the next few months. She is a computer science
& engineering student from the University of California Merced. Her
internship project involves helping us evaluate the usability of the new
Anaconda UI.
- Meet Filip (also cc'ed), who is a student working on a diploma thesis
in usability testing & tooling. He is friends with Jaroslav Reznik and
is going to be helping us with the usability testing plan, and he is
also going to be helping us on the ground running some tests at DevConf.cz.
One important part of a usability testing plan is giving the users who
will be running the tests a brief survey to understand their background
and technical experience with respect to the software being tested.
Having this information about the testers will help us better interpret
the test results.
Stephanie has put together an initial cut of the survey we'll be handing
to users before they take the Anaconda usability test. We're looking for
some feedback on the survey itself - we don't need your answers to the
survey, just comments on the structure / content of the survey itself.
:) The specific kind of feedback we are looking for is as follows:
- Did we miss any key technologies in the lists of questions to ask?
- Is any of the wording inaccurate or technically incorrect?
- Are there key technical experience or demogrpahic questions that would
affect a user's experience through the interface that we should be
asking and aren't here?
I've pasted the latest survey draft below - please let us know your
thoughts!
Thanks,
~m
[1] https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen
SURVEY DRAFT
============
1) Please circle which of the following age ranges applies to you:
< 18
18-25
25-30
31-35
36-40
41-50
51-60
61-70
70+
2) How often do you use computers and for what reasons? (circle all that
apply)
I don't use computers often.
I use computers for work.
I use computers at home.
I know how to program.
3) How much experience do you have with any system administration?
Novice
Moderate
Advanced
4) Do you have experience installing any Operating Systems? Which ones?
Fedora
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Other Linux ________
Apple OS X
Windows 7
Windows XP
Other Microsoft Windows ________
Other ________
5) Do you have experience installing any Virtual Machines? Which ones?
QEMU/KVM
Xen
Microsoft Hyper-V
Parallels
Virtual PC
VMware
Other ________
6) What different file systems are you familiar with? (circle all that
apply)
ext2 / ext3 / ext4
btrfs
VFAT
NTFS
XFS
HFS / HFS+
Other ____________
7) Have you used any of the following networked file systems?
NFS
NFSV4
SMB/CIFS
Ceph
Gluster
Lustre
8) Do you have experience with advanced storage technologies?
a) If so, which kinds? (circle all that apply)
iSCSI
Fibre Channel
Multi-path Storage
FCoE
IBM ZFCP/DASD
Firmware RAID
Other ________
b) If so, do you have a preferred storage vendor?
EMC
Dell
NetApp
IBM
Other ________
9) How much experience do you have with Logical Volume Management (LVM)?
(circle one)
I've used it before as an automatically-selected / default storage option
I've customized it manually before
I've resized LVs before
I've managed LVM storage across multiple machines
10) Do you prefer to configure software RAID?
Yes
No
If so, please specify:
RAID 0
RAID 1
RAID 4
RAID 5
RAID 6
RAID 10 RAID 0+1
RAID 1+0
11) If you customize your storage configuration when installing Linux,
how many disks, what kind of layout, and what technologies do you most
often use? (Please draw a diagram of how you would set this up)
12) Do you have any other comments about file and storage technologies
that you want to share?
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