On 3 June 2013 18:08, Mathieu Stumpf <[email protected]> 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. _______________________________________________ usability mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
