What you get is what you see: revisiting the evaluator effect in usability tests

Usability evaluation is essential to user-centred design; yet, evaluators who analyse the same usability test sessions have been found to identify substantially different sets of usability problems. We revisit this evaluator effect by having 19 experienced usability professionals analyse video-recorded test sessions with five users. Nine participants analysed moderated sessions; 10 participants analysed unmoderated sessions. For the moderated sessions, participants reported an average of 33% of the problems reported by all nine of these participants and 50% of the subset of problems reported as critical or serious by at least one participant. For the unmoderated sessions, the percentages were 32% and 40%. Thus, the evaluator effect was similar for moderated and unmoderated sessions, and it was substantial for the full set of problems and still present for the most severe problems. In addition, participants disagreed in their severity ratings. As much as 24% (moderated) and 30% (unmoderated) of the problems reported by multiple participants were rated as critical by one participant and minor by another. The majority of the participants perceived an evaluator effect when merging their individual findings into group evaluations. We discuss reasons for the evaluator effect and recommend ways of managing it.     

Older adults’ use of smart phones: an investigation of the factors influencing the acceptance of new functions

After adopting mobile phones, most older adults use them only for calling and SMS. The purpose of this study is to extend their usage of mobile phones to new functions. To understand older adults’ requirements of mobile phones, a questionnaire was constructed and 351 Chinese older adults were recruited to complete the questionnaires. Data collected through the questionnaires were analysed using explorative factor analysis. The results revealed that older adults’ requirements were composed of 10 factors: Find a Specific Function, Awareness and Attractiveness, Readability, Personal Concern, Soft Keys and Multi-tap, Hardware Capacity, Touch Screen, Concern of Learning, Connectivity, and Social Influence. Then, from the above 10 factors, the 6 most important factors were revealed using multiple linear regression analysis. The results imply that accepting new functions is different from accepting a product. Readability and Find a Specific Function, which are critical for older adults’ acceptance of feature phones, are not determinants of their acceptance of new functions in smart phones.     

Marsh筒法量化评价水泥与减水剂流变学相容性的探讨

从流变学角度阐述了Marsh筒试验参数的物理意义,并提出用5min流动性能系数K1、λmin（λ〉5）流动性能系数K2、流动性能经时损失系数K3及流变学相容性指数α来定量评价水泥与减水剂相容性的优劣。     

管材超声波分层缺陷检测中盲区的构成探析

管材超声波分层检测作为控制产品质量的关键步骤,必须引起相关从业人员的重视,特别是要重点分析分层缺陷检测中盲区的构成原因和分布特征。只有这样,才能切实保证检测结果的准确性,更好地控制管材质量。通过对超声波分层缺陷检测的重要性进行阐释,分析了其中盲区的构成和分布等问题。     

Early age microstructure of Portland cement mortar investigated by ultrasonic shear waves and numerical simulation

This paper investigates the ability of a shear wave reflection (WR) method to monitor microstructural changes of Portland cement mortar during hydration. The wave reflection method measures the reflection loss of shear waves at an interface between a steel plate and mortar. Mortars with water/cement ratios of 0.35, 0.5 and 0.6 were tested at isothermal curing conditions of 25 °C. The numerical model HYMOSTRUC3D was used to simulate the evolution of microstructural properties of the cement paste phase of the tested mortars. The parameters obtained from the simulations were the volume fraction of the total and connected solid phase and the specific contact area of the hydrated cement particles. The investigations have shown that the wave reflection measurements are governed primarily by the degree of the inter-particle bonding of the cement particles as calculated from the specific contact area of a simulated microstructure.     

软件测试工具分析及其应用探讨

结合实践探讨了在现有生产软件的中小型企业中,如何将软件测试与软件开发相结合,使软件测试管理的质量得以提升。介绍了一些目前常用的软件测试工具及测试管理工具,对软件测试管理中应注意到的80:20问题进行阐述分析,提出对测试管理中可能存在的风险可采取一些方法来应对。实践证明,使用全程软件测试管理对解决测试管理工作中存在的问题有很大帮助。     

雷达软件测试文档追踪系统的关键技术研究

雷达软件规模日益庞大,其软件测试也变得非常复杂,测试需求追踪逐步变成非常困难的任务,目前急需解决雷达软件中测试需求追踪管理、文档自动生成等问题。通过对软件测试需求的识别与定位、软件测试任务的分派,实现了雷达软件测试需求的跟踪、追溯,以及按标准模板产生相应的文档,重点对实现该追踪系统的关键技术进行了分析和描述。     

准完全最大距离伪随机测试研究

对超大规模集成电路进行随机测试的测试码之间的距离作了定量分析,在此基础上,改进了最大距离随机测试算法中测试码的生成方法,使得所生成的伪随机测试码集合同时达到最大海明距离与近似最大笛卡尔距离。因此每一个测试码可以尽可能多地独立检测到更多不重复的故障。进而提出了准完全最大距离测试新算法的思想和构建理论,并详细阐述了该算法的执行流程。在ISCAS'85基准电路上进行的大量实验数据分析表明,本方法确实有效地提高了随机测试效率,降低了随机测试成本。     

基于控制流模型的Web系统测试方法研究

Web应用系统的使用与日俱增,技术层出不穷,但是Web应用系统的测试却是一个难点.论文提出一种基于控制流的测试方法,对Web应用系统建立控制流模型,并给出形式化的定义,采用模型进行测试用例的产生.为了使测试自动化,论文还谈到脚本技术和测试执行器的设计.     

BackTrack5在网络渗透取证技术中的应用

本文对目前针对Linux平台下的BackTrack5进行阐述,内容涵盖敏感信息收集,漏洞信息收集,漏洞工具测试,账户特权升级等,笔者对在虚拟机环境下运行,下载BackTrack5,加载运行BackTrack5后需要进行网络配置加以说明,同时针对各种工具的常用命令及基本应用,实践后对其优缺点加以说明。