Comments on: Robot Replay: Watch your users via Ajax

By: Luiz JÃºnior Fernandes

Luiz JÃºnior Fernandes — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:20:05 +0000

It can be so much better…

By: Sanjiv Jivan

Sanjiv Jivan — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:39:26 +0000

This is an idea that Eric Pascarello came up with back in 2005. Not sure what the status of this work on this is.

http://radio.javaranch.com/pascarello/2005/11/01/1130878004388.html

By: Shounak Ghosh

Shounak Ghosh — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:55:55 +0000

Wow, this is pretty cool, no no no, correction, its great. Especially for students and developers to test their web applications, they can give the test user a series of tasks and then monitor them and later document it in the system’s documentation. Great stuff. Students check it out better, sure a nice way to get an A+ ;)

By: Kruston

Kruston — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:23:43 +0000

This could be extremely useful to better view how users interact with your site. Conducting user-testing with real users in a lab is timeconsumig and expensive, a well as giving results from an articificial environment. At the end of the day except for large scale operations it just not cost effective – but this look ideal and could really help people build websites that are truly responsive to users needs.

By: ben

ben — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:00:33 +0000

This will be an amazing tool during the development cycle. I wonder they will price it at after beta?

By: mileZ

mileZ — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 08:04:42 +0000

I tried it with drupal and wordpress, it didn’t work very well.

By: Bono

Bono — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:57:20 +0000

Any JS feature can be disabled by the users. Especially if you plan on spying on them. I will remember to add this to my Adblock list.

By: DarkRat

DarkRat — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:29:14 +0000

Your links are both pointing to the same video ;)

By: Scott Schiller

Scott Schiller — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:17:15 +0000

I wrote an experimental script based on this theme a while back, it was kind of neat (though difficult at times) to get the playback entirely accurate.
http://www.schillmania.com/interactive/browsercap/browsercap.js
I was inspired by “YugoP”, a very talented flash/shockwave developer who had some interesting experiments named “fingertracks” (look them up in the mystery-meat nav under archive -> page 2.) Quite neat.
http://www.yugop.com/

By: BarelyFitz

BarelyFitz — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:21:06 +0000

Sounds pretty cool, especially if you can hook up the user with a list of tasks to run through, and then observe the result. Although I wonder since it would have to be tightly coupled with the page HTML, the data might become useless after the page content changes.

There are other cheap services like UserVue that will actually record a screencast, but that requires the participant to load software and cooperate. http://www.techsmith.com/uservue/features.asp

By: visus

visus — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:47:13 +0000

Big Brother is watchin’ you!