If you’re tree testing for a project team, or for a client, you may want to share the raw results with them. By “raw results”, we mean the task scores and click paths that tree-testing tools track for you.

This is a great way of getting others interested in the study, while you take some time to dig deeper into the results and pull out some patterns and findings.

Depending on the tool, there may be several ways to share the data:

• You can use the tool’s “publish results” feature, if it has one. This typically gives you a web address that you can distribute to others; clicking the link shows them a read-only view of the results, without requiring a login.
  
  
• You can share your username/password for the tool, so others can log in and view the results for themselves.
  While this is easy, sharing a login is not ideal, especially if you use that account for other projects.
  
  
• You can download the results (typically to a spreadsheet file) and distribute that to others.
  However, the spreadsheet may not include the graphic visualizations that the tool offers in its web form.
  
  
• For collaborative analysis, you may want to download the spreadsheet and then upload it to a collaboration system like Google Drive that allows several users to view and edit the same file at once.
  This is helpful for splitting up work and viewing others’ feedback.
  
  

• Donna - compiling and analyzing results for paper tests

Next: Reviewing overall results