Selecting languages
Most online tools let us pick one or more languages to present to our participants. This usually covers the tool-supplied prompts and UI controls that the tool shows to participants during the tree test.
A single language
If we’re running our test in a single language, then our job is simple:
- We pick the tool language that we need, to cover the tool prompts and controls.
- We write our content (tree, tasks, and other text) in that same language.
Several languages
If we’re running our test in several languages, most tools will make us create a separate test for each language.
For each instance of the test:
- We pick the tool language that we need, to cover the tool prompts and controls.
- We write our content in that language.
- We make sure that any revisions we make (e.g. during our pilot testing) are applied to each instance of the test as needed.
- When it comes to analyzing the results later, we’ll need to manually compare the results between tests.
For more on multi-language testing, see Multi-language testing in Chapter 15.
Next: Password-protecting the test
Copyright © 2016 Dave O'Brien
This guide is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.