Bug #1395
Test timer - ignore time before first song is played
| Status: | Resolved | Start date: | 2015-09-11 | |
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| Priority: | High | Due date: | ||
| Assignee: |  Nicholas Jillings | % Done: | 0% | |
| Category: | - | |||
| Target version: | - |
Description
As far as I can tell, at the moment the 'test time' is measured throughout the test, from when the page is loaded.
Ideally, this should NOT include survey questions, instructions, or just having the page open awaiting a subject. Could it be checked and fixed that the test timer starts from the first sample playback (reference or otherwise)?
History
#1
Updated by Nicholas Jillings over 8 years ago
The test time starts once the first fragment on the first page is selected and is stopped by the submit button on the last page. Do we want a separate timer for each page as well then?
#2
Updated by Brecht De Man over 8 years ago
- File Screen Shot 2015-09-15 at 11.56.13.png added
I think that's a good way to calculate the total test time. I wasn't sure if this was the case and Dave flagged there were long periods before anything happened on the timeline (I can confirm this from my data as well) and wondered if this was time between setting up the test and waiting for the participant to start, or maybe answering survey questions.
People also sometime take a long break during the test...
Perhaps this doesn't need to be implemented differently in the test, but would be something to take care of in the analysis stage (i.e. only measure time from the first playback to the end of the last playback on any given page). I'm not sure at this point and would be happy to hear both your thoughts. I may be doing something wrong here so will have another look.
#3
Updated by Nicholas Jillings over 8 years ago
Are these long gaps in your results all on pages which were not the first test?
#4
Updated by Nicholas Jillings over 8 years ago
- Status changed from New to Resolved
This should be fixed now in dev_main. There is no global test time anymore but adding up the test pages would give the same total time.