Test Plan

What do we want out of this test, how will we conduct the test, and what will we ask users during the test?

From this test we want to know how efficient our instructions were. We want to know if the instructions are easy to comprehend or difficult to follow. How the reader felt after reading the instructions. Did they feel that they need more experience with cooking certain dishes that are similar to enchiladas? We will be conducting this test by asking our participants to read our instructions on how to make enchiladas, ask them question about how they felt after reading them, if they are clear and straight forward or difficult to understand. We will ask them to fill out a questionnaire. We will ask them about how difficult they thought the instructions were, the clarity of the instructions, if they would attempt to follow our instructions, how often do they cook a week, and we will ask them their overall impression of following the instructions.

Test Plan

Project goals

The goals of our instructions were to provide an easier way for people to cook enchiladas. To help bring families together at dinner time by helping others learn to cook a new dish. To teach people that it is easy to learn how to cook a new dish. These instructions could be beneficial to the readers by teaching them something new and to help bring their family together. The user just needs to want to learn to cook something new. The reader just needs a basic background of how to cook. They do not need to be a professional cook to follow our instructions they just need to know how to use their stove and oven. The context that the user will be using is basic knowledge of how to cook. Basically the user will be doing most of the work. The oven and stove will heat the food or cook the food, but the user will complete all other steps.

Testing Goals

We will be focusing on learn ability. We want our readers to not only use our instructions but to learn them as well. We think that we would learn something new and how to be able to bring my family closer together. We would hope that the reader will learn to maybe appreciate the effort and work that goes into creating something new. As well, we want the reader to appreciate all the excitement that they can experience in completing the instructions. I hope that providing all this information to the reader will help them in carrying out our instructions.

User Profile

We believe that our users are probably going to be adults who are interested in cooking. People who are open to trying new recipes and new dishes of food are probably the readers that will be attracted. They will learn how to make enchiladas differently and probably try to incorporate their own likings into the recipe. The users probably want to learn to cook and do not really need to know much about cooking. They really just really need to know the basics of knowing their way around their kitchen. The general background of the user is probably adults who are open to trying new things. They could be someone who is trying to perfect their recipe so they might incorporate some things from our recipe. I do believe that the user can work at their own pace to accomplish the usage of our instructions. If the user makes mistakes it’s ok. Nobody is perfect and they will not damage the whole recipe if they make a mistake. They just got to clean up the mess and continue making the reset of the batch.

Scenarios and Tasks

Think about if one day you get home and you walk into your kitchen. See all these ingredients on our counter top with a recipe sitting to the side of them. You look at the instructions and think, “you know what I can do this”, so you give it a try. You set everything up and go at accomplishing your goal of creating your very first attempt at enchiladas. You follow the instructions step by step. You first set up all your equipment and put your ingredients in order. You then start on step two of heating up your stove, while you are opening up our cans of chili and beans, tomato sauce, and shred your cheese. Third you start warming up the sauce in the pan, and then you dip your tortilla in the sauce, put it on your tortilla on the plate or glass tray, add your fillings, roll up your tortilla, add extra sauce, once your tray is full of enchiladas add more cheese on top. Lastly cover your tray with foil paper and then put them in the oven at about 350 degrees for about 20 minutes. I will be asking the reader to go home and try to accomplish using the instructions.

Testing materials

We will be using a questionnaire and verbal questioning. So we will be using regular word documents or maybe excel. We will be taking short hand notes while interviewing people. During the test after we have interviewed the user we will give them a paper copy of the questionnaire. We do not think we will need any other material.

Testing Protocol

We will be conducting the test on May 11 and we will be testing at least 10 people. We will break the interview into two parts 20 minutes in the verbal interview and the other 10 minutes so that the user can fill out the questionnaire. We allow the user a few minutes if they get stuck at any point during the testing but we will try to guide them to finishing the interview or questionnaire. We allow them to ask us questions but we will try to guide them to finishing the testing. We will also try to answering their question with a question to help get the thinking so they can answer all out questions. We will be asking several questions during the test but I do not think we will ask anything after the test. We will be giving a test report after the test to show our results but other than that we do not think we will be needing to provide anything else.