TestCon Europe 2019

Ewa Marchewka

Nokia, Poland

BIO

Ewa Marchewka is currently working as a Head of Software Integration and Test Department at Nokia managing a team of over 70 people. After getting a university degree in Telecommunication at AGH UST (Poland), she started her journey in the world of testing. During 14 years of her working life, she gained experience as Tester, Test Manager, Test Architect, Project Manager and Product Planner. Her hobby is psychology of testing.

Talk

Hallway Testing - Cool Face of Usability Testing

What is hallway testing? A really cool way to enhance usability of your product and make your UX better! How does it work?  What are the benefits of introducing this type of testing in your test strategy? In this presentation Ewa would like to answer all those questions and explain how we can leverage “outsider view” to improve user interface/usability of the product. Based on real life examples (case studies) she would like show to the audience how this technique can really “save the day” when it comes to end user experience. During the lecture, she will talk about: What is hallway testing? A really cool way to enhance usability of your product and make your UX better! How does it work?  What are the benefits of introducing this type of testing in your test strategy? In this presentation Ewa would like to answer all those questions and explain how we can leverage “outsider view” to improve user interface/usability of the product. Based on real life examples (case studies) she would like show to the audience how this technique can really “save the day” when it comes to end user experience. During the lecture, she will talk about: – Good practices of hallway testing- Who should take part in hallway testing and how they should be engaged- Wwhat kind of projects can benefit from this techniqueIn which phase of the project hallway testing should be appliedWhat are the things we should avoid when applying hallway testing.

Session Keywords
Usability Testing
User Experience