How do I set up the General section in Mobile Testing?
In this help, we'll discuss how to use the General tab to:
- Name your study
- Set the language of your study
- Set up what you want to test
- Choose whether and how the respondents have to identify themselves
- Protect your study with a password
- Set the ending conditions for the study
Name your study
- Respondents don't see the study name displayed anywhere
- Use a name that helps you identify the study on the dashboard
Set the language of your study
- Language determines the language of the labels and headings in the study
- Currently, only English is supported. More languages coming soon
Set up what you want to test
Mobile Testing supports testing of basically anything on a mobile screen. There are three main types of media which you can select from to test them:
- iOS native apps
- Android native apps
- Websites
- Prototypes
Any website or prototype is supported, as long as the respondents will be able to access it from their device by opening a link.
After selecting the media type, you will be prompted to insert more information about your app/site/prototype so that it may be displayed to participants during the study.
If you chose iOS native app:
- App name - This is what your app will be referred to as during the testing.
- URL to App Store or TestFlight - The URL that will allow respondents to download your app at the beginning of the study. You can test an already released app from the App Store, or a beta version from TestFlight.
- App URL scheme - This optional setting allows your UXtweak study to open your app during the testing directly. If you aren't familiar with URL schemes and how to get them for your app, feel free to ignore this setting, ask your developers for help or read more about URL schemes here. If you don't include an App URL scheme, UXtweak will open the app's store page instead. From there, the respondents should be able to open the app.
If you chose Android native app:
- App name - This is what your app will be referred to as during the testing.
- URL to Play Store or to APK download - The URL that will allow respondents to download your app at the beginning of the study. You can test an already released app from the Google Play Store, or a beta version from APK.
- App URL scheme (Deep Links) - This optional setting allows your UXtweak study to open your app during the testing directly. If you aren't familiar with Deep Links and how to get them for your app, feel free to ignore this setting, ask your developers for help or read more about Deep Links here. You can also use the package names to select where your respondent will start in your app. If you don't include an App URL scheme, UXtweak will open the app's store page instead. From there, the respondents should be able to open the app.
If you chose Website
- Website name - This is what your website will be referred to as during the testing.
- Website URL - Insert a link that you want to use to open your website during the study.
If you chose Prototype
- Prototype name - This is what your website will be referred to as during the testing.
- Prototype URL - Insert a link that you want to use to open your prototype during the study. In general, this link needs to be publicly accessible so that respondents may open it. For instructions on where to find the public prototype link in major prototyping tools, see the instructions below.
How to retrieve the public sharing link in my prototyping tool?
Figma:
This should be the first screen you see after signing into Figma. You can also go here here.
Double click the file.
It's a blue button located in the upper right of your screen.
Your Figma prototype needs to be publicly accessible so it can be imported.
This button is located at the bottom of the displayed sharing popup.
Adobe XD:
This should be a project that's ready for sharing, with all the needed interactions added in the Prototype tab.
It's located at the top of the screen beside the Prototype tab.
This viewing preset is optimized for testing your prototype with users.
Your testers need to have access to your prototype.
Then wait a moment while the link is generated.
You can use the button located on the right of the link.
Axure RP 9:
Choose a project that's ready for testing.
Then click Publish to Axure Cloud
To make accessing to the prototype simple, using password protection is not recommended
You can use the button located on the right of the link.
Sketch:
This should contain your prototype which is ready for testing.
You'll find it under the three dots icon.
Your testers need to have access to your prototype.
You can find it by going to the document overview, hovering over the prototype, clicking the three dots and choosing either option.
Marvel:
Choose a prototype that's ready for testing.
You'll find it in the header in the upper right corner.
It's in the Copy link section.
Choose whether and how the respondents have to identify themselves
Select one of the following respondent identification options:
- Anonymous - The respondents don't have to identify themselves (default option)
- Email address - Demand that they provide their email before they begin
- Other - Ask for another identifier of your choice (e.g. name, screen name, internal company ID)
If the study isn't anonymous, the respondent won't be allowed to go forward until they identify themselves.
The respondent's identification will be displayed next to their study results.
If you selected Other identifiers, by enabling Allow duplicate identifiers, you can allow multiple respondents to use the same identifier (e.g. to identify members from the same group).
By default, your study won’t store the IP addresses of respondents. You can enable them with the Store respondent IP address option.
Protect your study with a password
There are two options for how access to your study link can be protected:
- No password - the study is open to anybody with the link
- Private study - ask would-be respondents to enter a password first.
The password has to be between 1 and 250 characters long, with no additional demands on the type of characters.
Don't forget to share the password with the intended respondents! :)
Set the ending conditions for the study
By finishing a study, you make sure that it stops collecting data from more respondents. You can finish a study both manually and automatically:
- Manually - End the study anytime you want, without constraints
- Respondent limit - Automatically finish the study once it's been conducted with enough respondents.
- Closing date - Automatically finish a study once a deadline has been reached.
Even when you set a study to finish automatically, you can always finish it manually when you want to by clicking the Finish button.
If a deadline is reached while some respondents are still working on completing the study, these respondents will be allowed to finish up.
Can I reopen a finished study?
Once a study has been finished, there is no way to reopen it. Therefore, be careful about setting your finishing conditions or finishing the study manually, so that you're absolutely sure you don't want to collect any more data in the same study afterwards.
If you want to repeat the same study like one you did in the past, you can opt to clone the study project. You can either tweak it or leave it as is, before you launch the project as a new study. (Clone can be done either from the dashboard or from the dropdown in the upper right corner).