[Info]:HWT Second session(HWT-2) experience report

Hi Friends,


Please find the WT- HWT-2 Experience Report below:

WT- HWT-2 Experience Report

Date: 19th Dec 2009

Time: 3 PM – 5 PM

Website Tested: http://www.tvbrowser.org/content/view/7/6

Mission: To learn the product as quickly as possible and find the bugs as possible
(Mission firstly announced was "Raising bugs proper justification as to why it is a bug,bug without justification would be rejected even though its a bug" because many session members were facing problem in downloading the software)

Testers: Kusuma,Karan,Sireesha Paramesh,Ajay,Sreelatha,Madhu,Nawaz Ahmed

HWT-2 Discussion was mainly focused on 5 questions as below:

1.how you started learning?
2.what did you do first?
3.why you did that?
4.if given second chance, what you would do?
5.What's your experience in the session?

Sreelatha,Kusuma and Madhu couldn't download and install the software due to some issues with the slow speed internet connection until completion of the session.(Inspite the product details were given 20minutes before the session begin at 2.39pm IST)

Karan:Karan enjoyed testing the product.Raised very interesting bugs and sent the bug report ontime.I appreciate his passion towards the testing.
1. for this 1st i got to install the product,it took lot of time to do it through all 4 steps by the time half of the time span is over.
2.I have started exploring each and every feature in that
3.found lot of exceptions.when trying to open the plugin help files
4.I should have performed better and faster in exploring the product.
5.It was big tough to get the essence of such a typical application in such a short span and a good experience over all i had.

Nawaz Ahmed:Who joined the session very late but could managed to download,install,study and test the product and prepared the test report intime.
1.The software installation was smooth.
2.I was unable to access TV browser for first time as it has firewall exception.So disabled the firewall
3.I was unable to access TV browser.
4.I will perform better than this.
5.It was good experience as i have good explore in testing the open source tools.

I really appreciate two passionate testers i.e., Karan and Nawaz Ahmed for his good work in the session.

Ajay:He joined the session for assisting Sireesha who is the facilitator for the session.This time he monitored and suggested to sent the product details before the session

Sireesha: Sireesha who is the facilitator for the session was excited.Learned how to manage the session and test the product simultaneously.Over all the session ended leaving a very good experience for all who participated the session.
1.Firstly downloaded and installed the software.
2.Searched for the Help documentation of the product.
3.I did that because to explore about the product first.
4.I will test the product in a better way.
5.Over all it was good experience.Knowing a new product,sharing knowldge regarding new product and facilitating the session.

Over all experience:All the participants were excited and actively participated in the discussion beyond the expectations.I was very thankful for them.Hope will see same enthusiam in the next session.

Conclusion for the product under test:
1. Product requires high speed net connection for downloading the software
2.Not user friendly
3.No good documents provided(like Requirements document,feature set list...)
4.Complexity
5.No User manual

Regards,
Weekend Testers-HWT-2