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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 09, 1999
Jianming Dong, Austin, TX (US);
Shirley Lynn Martin, Austin, TX (US);
John Martin Mullaly, Austin, TX (US);
Alan Richard Tannenbaum, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, system and program for performing remote automated usability testing of a software application utilizing a data processing system connected within a network. In accordance with the method, system and program of the present invention, a user is provided with an automated usability test for a particular software application, wherein the automated usability test is to be activated while the particular software application is running utilizing a data processing system connected within a network. The user is prompted to perform particular tasks, in response to activation of the automated usability test while the software application is running. Data indicating the usability of the software application is gathered through user responses to the promptings. The gathered data is automatically sent to a data collection location at a remote site within the network, such that usability test data from multiple data processing systems in multiple remote user environments is gathered at a location remote from the multiple data processing systems.