Morae Teppo Räisänen From: Morae – Getting Started. TechSmith Corporation

General Information Morae is used for the usability testing of software 3 Components: Recorder Remote Viewer Manager

Recorder Recorder saves and synchronizes the UI actions and data inputs of a user Recorder is installed in the same computer as the software to be tested During testing Recorder will run in the background

Remote Viewer With RV the members of testing group can observe the actions of the user Audio channel Video connection (e.g. WebCam) Screenshots Notes and comments can be added for a further analysis and viewing RV does not have to be used in all test sessions (if e.g. pen and paper will be enough)

Manager Manager is used for creating project in which the test sessions are imported from the Recorder component By using Manager’s search function a spesific kind or user actions can easily be found

Manager Manager can be used for (e.g.): Searching, editing and classifying RV users’ notes and comments Calculate the time the user needed to complete a spesific task From the notes and user actions video compliations can be exported using Manager

Testing Process

Technical Environment Components communicate using wired/ wireless network The basic setup can be expanded: Several Remote Viewer –components for multilple viewing Several Recorder/Manager-components for testing multiple users of analyzing multiple cases simultaneously

Technical Environment

Some Hardware Requirements Win2000, XP, (Vista, Win7?) Pentium min. 1,5 GHz Min. 500 MB RAM Min. 10 MBps connection

Testing Configuration of the technical environment Feeding in the data of test & test users Configuration of shortcut keys to the RV (e.g. ’N’ = navigational error) Choosing the input sources

Users, Notes, Sources

Testing Configuration of the start and endpoints of the saving (E.g. user opens/closes browser application) Testing the environments Start the application to be tested Make sure that the Recorder starts

Testing Establishing a connection between the Recorder- ja Remote Viewer – components Make sure that the camera and mic are working properly Running the test User starts up the software Recorder starts up and starts to pass data to the Remote Viewer(s)

Initial Stages of the Testing Session

Procedures After Testing Analyzing of the results e.g. Time user for the subtasks (start/end markings) The navigational paths user chosed to use The difficulties experienced by the user Search for a specific actions by the user (e.g. mouse & kb events)

Search & Results