For the testing of personalized projects tester accounts are used. These are participant accounts specifically created for testing purposes, which have special characteristics due to their “tester” status. |
Overview of the Properties of the Tester Account
Testers can complete a questionnaire several times, whereas “normal” respondents can do this only once.
If a tester with the “Completed” disposition code accesses the questionnaire for a second time, the existing data will be deleted. The tester will begin the new entry on the first page of the project.
Testers do not “resume their work“. If a tester interrupts editing the questionnaire for a prolonged period of time (more than 30 minutes) and then accesses the questionnaire again, they will resume the questionnaire on page 1. “Normal” respondents see the page last sent.
Within the export record, tester records can be identified by the tester export variable which is 0-1 encoded.
Tester data can be selectively deleted using the Compile function.
Sometimes you need dummy accounts for testing purposes, which do not correspond to any real mail recipient. In such cases, you can use e-mail addresses on the @3uu.eu domain: these addresses are owned by Tivian, mails sent to them are deleted automatically.
Creating Tester Accounts
When creating the participant account select “yes” in the “tester” field.
Importing Tester Accounts
It is easy to import tester accounts: The import template contains a “tester” column. In this column, enter the desired value for the variable “tester” for all participants:
0 and blank field: normal participant
1: tester
When matching the column of your import file with the database fields the “tester” column is automatically allocated to the “tester” database field.