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Name :   Carol Julian
Organization :   KSU
Post Date :   9/27/2005

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Glossary Term :  Usability Testing
Definition :  
Comment :  Current:

Encompasses a range of methods that examine how users in the target audience actually interact with a system, in contrast to analytic techniques such as usability inspection.
Association: human factors, HF: usability
Source: Usability First Usability Glossary

Change:

A method by which users of a product are asked to perform certain tasks in an effort to measure the product's usability.  Typically, formative (or diagnostic) usability testing is conducted as part of a product development process and summative (or empirical) testing is conducted after a product is completed.

Source:
http://www.eac.gov/docs/NIST%20HF%20Reportdated%20wcoverletter.pdf

Nature of change:  Defined per NIST HF Rpt.