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Dear GS Soil website visitor!
Thanks for your interest in the project GS Soil co-funded by the community programme eContentplus. We kindly ask you to help us to evaluate the functionality and usability of the GS Soil Portal. With your feedback you help us to improve the GS Soil Portal.
This year we want to award prizes for your testing efforts. Those users providing their testing templates the most complete get a prize. In total we award 10 USB-sticks of GS Soil.
With the development of the GS Soil Portal we want to fulfill needs of different target groups for soil data in Europe. The GS Soil Portal is offering several services like search, advanced search, view and download of soil data and maps. In the last weeks of the project we want to finally improve the Portal. The amount of available data and maps is expected to be increased significantly in the future. Therefore also soil data you are holding in a database are welcome to be linked to the Portal if they comply with Inspire Standards.
The Portal can be reached here: http://gssoil-portal.eu.
For the user testing of the GS Soil Portal in 2012 we developed testing scenarios. These testing scenarios include test cases for tests of search (including advanced search), view and download service of the Portal.
For search service we prepared testing scenarios specific for different target groups. For advanced search and the other services we produced a common testing scenario for all target groups.
The testing scenarios contain the guideline how to run tests and how to report the test results.
Please consider that in each testing scenario we included a usability assessment at the end of the scenario.
Testing scenarios should run at least with web browsers Firefox 3.6 and Internet Explorer 8 .
If you only want to assess the general usability of the Portal a separate template is provided.
The word documents for the testing can be reached at the GS Soil website in the download section under item ‘Testing scenarios’.
We kindly ask you to further support the GS Soil project by carrying out the testing of the scenarios ‘Search’ and ‘Maps’. With your tests you help us to see, if the features of the Portal are correctly developed, to further improve the quality of the Portal and to make it more suitable to your needs. We highly appreciate to receive your testing results till 22nd of April 2012. Please, send the filled word documents to
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If you have questions, please send them to
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Best regards,
Sigbert Huber & Larissa Vincze GS Soil User Testing Team |