June 16, 2004

Is testing worthless?

Lane Becker of Adaptive Path has published an article entitled 90 percent of all usability testing is useless. Given the simultaneous appearance of this mini-memoir about faking it in focus groups, one has to step lightly when diving into testing. I believe testing has merits when targeted properly—and I particularly agree with Lane's assertion that testing is a UI function and not QA. Posted by werty at June 16, 2004 10:07 AM