Celestia usage questionnaire--volunteers needed!

kaycea · Post #1by **kaycea** » 06.12.2004, 07:32

Hello,

I am looking to do an operational profile for Celestia to see which features are most used by Celestia developers, new users, students, etc. Hopefully the results will be of some benefit to the community. Please help me by filling out a the questionnaire at:

http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB223YXAS648R

This activity corresponds to something we are studying in my software testing/QA class. Feedback within the next few days is highly appreciated!

Thanks all!

Bob Hegwood · Post #2by **Bob Hegwood** » 06.12.2004, 09:56

Sorry, but I was a bit upset after I took your survey, and
then realized that this looked like another of those "Earn
Money From Home" scams...

Can you explain please?

Thanks, Bob

kaycea · Post #3by **kaycea** » 06.12.2004, 16:47

Hi Bob,

Maybe it was the free questionnaire service that seemed "shady"?

I'm doing this as part of an assignment for a software testing and QA class. There is no money to be earned here, although a decent grade would be nice!

The operational profile is simply to guage which features in Celestia is used most commonly by users and to see if different levels of users have more use for certain features than others. The idea is that if the Celestia developers know which functionalities are most important, then they can focus testing activities on these areas.

Hope that helps! Thanks for asking for a clarification. I'm sure others are asking themselves the same thing.

Bob Hegwood · Post #4by **Bob Hegwood** » 06.12.2004, 23:18

kaycea wrote:Maybe it was the free questionnaire service that seemed "shady"?

No, it was the Pop-Up advertisements which stated with some
emphasis that I too could make money by filling out surveys!

My apologies, but I thought that Old Brain-Dead had been
taken to the cleaners once again. :wink:

Thanks very much for the explanation, and sorry to have
spoiled your project...

Have you taken the survey yourself? Then, maybe you'd see
what I'm talking about.

Thanks, Brain-Dead Bob

kaycea · Post #5by **kaycea** » 06.12.2004, 23:25

I tested the questionnaire myself but didn't get any pop-ups. My Google toolbar for IE probably blocked them all. I'm sorry for the inconvenience this causes anyone, but again, questionnaire feedback is greatly appreciated.

Post #6by **selden** » 06.12.2004, 23:39

Bob,

With SP2 installed, you shouldn't be seeing popup ads unless something changed the default settings for you.

Bob Hegwood · Post #7by **Bob Hegwood** » 06.12.2004, 23:54

Okay,

I took the survey again, just so I could see what displeased
me so...

Turns out it was the THANK YOU page itself.

Can be seen after the survey is finished. Sorry, but I just
didn't like the fact that the page invited me to register as
a survey "filler-outer." Offered me great REWARDS for
becoming a REGISTERED applicant. Etc, etc...

My apologies once again, but I don't LIKE being led into
a Marketing Tool. :cry:

Thanks, Bob

Evil Dr Ganymede · Post #8by **Evil Dr Ganymede** » 07.12.2004, 00:18

Maybe, but at no point did one have to actually give any personal info to do the survey. So all the spam and popups etc (which I didn't see because I use netscape, which blocks popups) strike me as being irrelevant in practise, since you can just do the survey itself and ignore the rest of it.

Michael Kilderry · Post #9by **Michael Kilderry** » 07.12.2004, 05:44

I didn't actually get any popups, maybe they had been blocked and I didn't know.

Michael Kilderry