Hi Nik Your question sounds interesting, but it's hard to make out exactly what you're asking.
The idea of having a piece of software that can test UX / usability by pushing a button - this is a wonderful idea, but a complete fantasy. User experience can only be understood by observing the behaviour of real users in some manner. This is absolutely fundamental to the whole concept of user experience. The best shortcuts you can hope for are expert evaluation techniques like heuristics, checklists and standards - even these require an experienced expert to operate. Looking at the demo video, Selenium looks entirely inappropriate. Perhaps you're after a screen recording app like morae, silverback or camtasia - but without knowing more about your needs, it's hard to guess. Tell us more and we'd be happy to help :-) Harry On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Nik Lazell <nik.laz...@realadventure.co.uk>wrote: > Hi all, > > > > Does anyone have any experience of using Selenium for testing > (http://seleniumhq.org/)? I have been asked to research it's potential > for UX testing. I have used it briefly as a developer, but it seems to > be more suited to testing the functionality of a site rather than from a > usability point of view. > > > > In fact, can any automated tools really test usability? > > > > Thanks, > > Nik > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- Dr. Harry Brignull User Experience Consultant http://www.90percentofeverything.com + 44 (0)7920 474784 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
