Guerilla Style
In a typical usability test, you invite people to come to you. You sit them down in front of a specially prepared workspace and ask them to do specific tasks while you record their actions. You then use the information gleaned from this interaction to improve your user interface.
This kind of testing involves quite a bit of preparation. You need to set up a workspace and devise a way of recording your testers; you need to find testers, schedule them, and maybe also pay them for their participation.
As usability testing became more widespread in the software community, people developed a set of techniques that circumvent all the process issues. This is commonly known as guerilla usability testing.
The main difference to a regular ...
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