1. Rockitude#1 Usability testing plan for Rockitude
School of Business and Information Management
Oulu University of Applied Sciences

2. Team members Dominik Röck - k0rodo00 Pekka Mankila - k8mape00
Wang Li - k8wali00
Tu Tianyi - k8tuti00
Sonja Wihan – k0wiso00

3. Case description Describe the case generally What are you testing?
Rockitude-Game for iPhone
For whom are you testing?
Tuonela Productions

4. Focus
If you are concentrating/focusing on some aspect of the product, describe it here
Playability, user interface,test user impressions, possible bugs, loading speed, graphics, test users´willingness to buy the game

5. Test persons
8 students
from 21 to 25 years of age
4 male / 4 female

6. Test protocol Describe the test protocol
Users were instructed before playing about the game (verbally).
Users had to play one whole song.
After the playing they were asked to fill out a questionary

7. Test protocol 2 Describe the test protocol
The test users were just instructed how to play the game before the actual playing
Informal small talk during playing, so they players explained problems directly
After testing users have been interviewed and were asked to fill in a questionnaire

8. Team members’ roles
Describe what the team members did during the test session
Some observed the test
One person wrote down all the things that happened during the test
One person instructed the users

9. Time and location Where did you do the testing?
School (Oulu UAS)
Otokylä (Student hall of residence)
When did you do the testing?
22nd – 28th November

10. Demographic How many testers did you get? How many male/female8
How many male/female
4 / 4
Age distribution
Other background info
students

11. Results [Introduction]
All scales are from 1 (very bad) - 5 (very good)

12. Results [Impressions]
All female users found the game NON-ATTRACTIVE
All male users found the game ATTRACTIVE

13. Results [LOADING-SPEED]
Male: Ø 3,5
female: Ø 4,25
Conclusion:
The overall average of 3,9 says that the loading speed is acceptable or fast enough for the users.

14. Results [PLAYABILITY]
Male: Ø 3,5
Female: Ø 2,75
Conclusion:
The overall average of 3,1 says that the playability should be improved – but if you look at the details: especially female users said that the playability isn‘t that good

15. Results [Graphics I - Fonts]
Male: Ø 4,5
Female: Ø 3,5
Conclusion:
The overall average of 4 says that the users really like the fonts of the game.

16. Results [Graphics II - Background]
Male: Ø 3,75
Female: Ø 2,5
Conclusion:
The male users really liked the background style – but if Tuonela would like to get more female users, there should be a changing.

17. Results [Graphics - Conclusion]
Male: Ø 4,125
Female: Ø 3
Conclusion:
The overall average of 3,56 says that the users liked the graphical style

18. Bugs
Some test users found out that the phone´s power-save mode goes automatically on when you play long enough
Sometimes when playing, the test users accidentally pressed the volume button and had problems with the sound

19. Users´willingness to buy the game
7/8 said that they would not buy the game
1/8 (male) said maybe

20. Suggestions for improvements
More songs
Songs are too long
Symbols are not always clear
More different kinds of levels
Fix the bugs

21. Summary of results Graphics were generally found good
Loading speed was found fast
Male test users found the game better than female test users

22. Summary of results
Female test users seemed not to enjoy the game at all
Some improvements in the playability could be done
Some bugs disturbing the playing experience (e.g. power-save mode issue)
But all the test users were students; you can not really say how would younger or older users had found the game like

23. Conclusion Loading speed and the graphics were good
Almost no one would consider buying the game
Bugs
Playiability would need to be improved, it could be made little easier to play the game; some more testing could be done