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Re: Needed: QA participants for usability testing

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From: Caitlin Geier
Date: Aug 22, 2016 6:32AM

Yes, that's correct - the product I'm testing is geared towards QA analysts
(and, to a lesser extent, people who test websites and applications
specifically for accessibility).

-Caitlin

On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> > I'm a little confused by your conflating of QA testing and usability
> testing.
> They are not the same, and you will confuse anyone in the broader UX or
> development community if you use them as synonyms.
>
> Whitney, it sounds like she is looking for QA people for the study because
> they will be the users of the product. So it is a usability test -- but
> the target population is QA people.
>
> Jonathan
>
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