Date: 21st August 2010
Time: 15:30 – 17:30 UTC
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Mission
Pair up using Mikogo and try to find out how you may influence the dropping balls.
Report bugs you find (in either of the applicatrions) to Bug Repository until 4.30pm UTC.
Testers: Tejas Shah, Venu, Samir Kumar, Sandeep Kumar, Artyom Silivonchik, Michael Larsen, Eusebiu Blindu, Ajay Balamurugadas, Markus Gärtner
Markus Gärtner facilitated the discussion afterwards.
Michael Larsen and Tejas Shah reported that they explored Mikogo and found some neat features for pairing, like sharing the control, and a whiteboard where the pair could put session notes. However, they also found a bug on the whiteboard, resulting in a cleared whiteboard once the second testers tried to put something in there.
Ajay Balamurugadas and Venu reported that they found a show-stopper bug earlier, before getting to the whiteboard. They had set up a circular session, where person A hosted B, B hosted for C, and C was also joining in A’s session as a viewer. By then they noticed a delay when taking over controls from a remote screen. The delay got more severe as the second passed on the controls to the third person. Additionally the third person was able to control just the screen of the second person, but these changes were not reflected on the initial host.
Artyom Silivonchik and Samir Kumar reported that they made very poor experiences of both tools. The ball dropping game was not working for Samir on IE at all, and the lack of chatting in Mikogo forced them to switch between applications to exchange thoughts.
The groups’ consense was to use Mikogo for a quick and dirty look on something, but not to use it for pairing. Ajay mentioned that he wanted to take a look into the application some more, others preferred other products.
The skype chat transcript can be inspected here.
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Hi Markus,
Thanks for testing Mikogo. I just wanted to say that it was quite interesting to read your report on testing Mikogo. You might be interested to hear that we are busy developing Version 4 of Mikogo and that there will be two new developments inclued in the next version that should respond to your main concerns: Chat and multiple-user whiteboard.
We announced in a recent newsletter that we are looking for beta testers. If you would like to be one of the first to test Mikogo V4 with the new features, please enter your email address here: http://www.mikogo.com/beta/ We will later contact everyone who signed up with details of the beta testing. (Email address is just used for notifying people of Version 4 beta testing).
Regards,
Andrew Donnelly
The Mikogo Team