IS480 Team wiki: 2015T1 Chipmunks User Testing 3
Test Plan
Objectives
- Gathering sponsor’s feedback with regards to the heuristics and design of the existing functions of the current application
- Identify any usability issues that persist in the application
- Improvement of our application based on the results
- Managing of expectations
Number of Users: 2
Date: 11 November 2015, Friday
Scope of UT3
- Investment Model Functionality
- Reports Management Functionality
- Scenario Pricing Tree Functionality
- What's Priced In Functionality
- Mean Reversion Functionality
Testing Document: UT Document 3
Procedure: Testers are financially trained therefore, a set of tasks will be given to the testers to follow and complete.
Results/Comments
- There were a few usability issues that were addressed by the testers
- Inclusion of several information with regards to the Investment Model was recommended
- The list of pre-UAT and post-UAT changes can be found here.
In general, the Financially Trained users were pleasantly surprised at how quick Stock Parser could generate an Investment Model, notably stating:
Being able to minimise the time taken to generate a model - from 5-6 days to just a few mouse clicks, really empowers the regular investment analysts, allowing them to focus more on other Investment related issues.