Re: Feedback on installer/storage survey for usability tests

[Filip Kosík]

Hi folks,

I consulted (with Jaroslav Reznik) my participation and role at 
DevConf.cz and I should take a local organization. I should also recruit 
participants for the usability tests (as part of my diploma thesis) 
because DevConf participants will be too skilled. For this reason it 
would be good prepare profiles of suitable users (groups of users) and 
take account of it in the survey.

I made my own very rough draft of survey before I read Stephanie's draft 
(to not be influenced):

- Gender
- Age range (categories: 18-26 / ...)
- Education attainment
- Employment (position, company size, how long have you been involved,...)
- Ethnicity
- Computer and Internet experience
- Linux (administration) experience
- Fedora or some other Anaconda based distribution experience 
(especially installation)
- (new Anaconda (Fedora 18) experience)

There are some extra areas of questions in my rough draft. Most of them 
are linked to the user profiles (I mentioned earlier). Maybe I should 
add appropriate questions to the local (Czech) version of survey.

The rest of my draft is very similar to Stephanie's draft. Therefore, I 
have no objection to the type of questions. I would only clarify some 
terms in the survey. I think it is important to be unambiguous about the 
meaning of terms like “Novice”, “Moderate” or “Advanced”. Questions 
should be more specific and less subjective. We could use frequency 
and/or time to measure of experience.

Filip

4.1.2013 17:16, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'd like to introduce you to two new contributors who are going to be
> helping us put the new Anaconda UI through some usability tests:
> Meet Stephanie (cc'ed), who is my UX intern through the Outreach
>
> Program for Women [1] for the next few months. She is a computer science
> & engineering student from the University of California Merced. Her
> internship project involves helping us evaluate the usability of the new
> Anaconda UI.
> Meet Filip (also cc'ed), who is a student working on a diploma thesis
>
> in usability testing & tooling. He is friends with Jaroslav Reznik and
> is going to be helping us with the usability testing plan, and he is
> also going to be helping us on the ground running some tests at DevConf.cz.
>
> One important part of a usability testing plan is giving the users who
> will be running the tests a brief survey to understand their background
> and technical experience with respect to the software being tested.
> Having this information about the testers will help us better interpret
> the test results.
>
> Stephanie has put together an initial cut of the survey we'll be handing
> to users before they take the Anaconda usability test. We're looking for
> some feedback on the survey itself - we don't need your answers to the
> survey, just comments on the structure / content of the survey itself.
> :) The specific kind of feedback we are looking for is as follows:
>
> Did we miss any key technologies in the lists of questions to ask?
>
> Is any of the wording inaccurate or technically incorrect?
>
> Are there key technical experience or demogrpahic questions that would
>
> affect a user's experience through the interface that we should be
> asking and aren't here?
>
> I've pasted the latest survey draft below - please let us know your
> thoughts!
>
> Thanks,
> ~m
>
> [1] https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen
> SURVEY DRAFT
> Please circle which of the following age ranges applies to you:
>
> < 18
> 18-25
> 25-30
> 31-35
> 36-40
> 41-50
> 51-60
> 61-70
> 70+
> How often do you use computers and for what reasons? (circle all that
>
> apply)
>
> I don't use computers often. 		
> I use computers for work.
> I use computers at home. 			
> I know how to program.
> How much experience do you have with any system administration?
>
> Novice
> Moderate
> Advanced
> Do you have experience installing any Operating Systems? Which ones?
>
> Fedora 		
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux		
> Other Linux ________
> Apple OS X
> Windows 7
> Windows XP
> Other Microsoft Windows ________		
> Other ________
> Do you have experience installing any Virtual Machines? Which ones?
>
> QEMU/KVM
> Xen
> Microsoft Hyper-V
> Parallels
> Virtual PC
> VMware
> Other ________
> What different file systems are you familiar with? (circle all that
>
> apply)
>
> ext2 / ext3 / ext4	
> btrfs	
> VFAT		
> NTFS		
> XFS	
> HFS / HFS+	
> Other ____________
> Have you used any of the following networked file systems?
>
> NFS
> NFSV4
> SMB/CIFS
> Ceph
> Gluster
> Lustre
> Do you have experience with advanced storage technologies?
>
> a) If so, which kinds? (circle all that apply)
>
> iSCSI		
> Fibre Channel	
> Multi-path Storage	
> FCoE
> IBM ZFCP/DASD
> Firmware RAID
> Other ________
>
> b) If so, do you have a preferred storage vendor?
> EMC
> Dell
> NetApp
> IBM
> Other ________
> How much experience do you have with Logical Volume Management (LVM)?
>
> (circle one)
>
> I've used it before as an automatically-selected / default storage option
> I've customized it manually before		
> I've resized LVs before
> I've managed LVM storage across multiple machines
> Do you prefer to configure software RAID?
>
> Yes	
> No
>
> If so, please specify:
>
> RAID 0		
> RAID 1		
> RAID 4		
> RAID 5		
> RAID 6 		
> RAID 10	RAID 0+1	
> RAID 1+0
> If you customize your storage configuration when installing Linux,
>
> how many disks, what kind of layout, and what technologies do you most
> often use? (Please draw a diagram of how you would set this up)
> Do you have any other comments about file and storage technologies
>
> that you want to share?