Taskee Simplifies Web Site Testing
June 20th, 2007 (10:41am) Mike Gunderloy 12 Comments
If your web work involves delivering sites to customers (as it does for many of us), you’ve probably run into the mismatch between the average customer and the average bug-tracking system. When the first round of a new site is ready to look at, and you’re ready for feedback from your client, there’s that awkward moment of trying to teach them how to use some developer-oriented tool to enter bugs. Often we give up and fall back on “just e-mail me and I’ll keep track of the issues myself,” with the associated data re-entry and potential for losing track of things.
That’s the problem that Taskee is here to solve.
After a quick registration process, this new service hands you back two lines of JavaScript. Include those lines in any web page, and when anyone browses to that page they’ll see the Taskee Open button in the upper right corner of the page. Clicking that button lets them log on to Taskee (assuming you’ve set up an account), where they can immediately enter comments, bugs, feature requests, complaints, or anything else related to the page they’re looking at in the browser. The Taskee window floats over your own web page, so it’s easy to refer back to the page you’re trying to comment on.
Taskee handles the rest: storing the bug reports, sending e-mail notifications, taking you to the page in question when you log into Taskee yourself and click on a bug. It’s a slick little idea that removes nearly all of the friction of communicating with people about web pages - and though I see it through the lens of software development, it would clearly be useful any time you needed to collaborate with someone else about a web site.
Taskee is still in beta, and some things aren’t perfect. Notably, you’ll find <select> and <object> tags get hidden when Taskee is open, so Flash and similar embedded objects won’t be visible. It would be nice to have some way to annotate the underlying page instead of just describing it as well. But for a free beta service that just launched, this one is already showing promise.
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test says: June 20th, 2007 3:59pm
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Yaakov Sash says: June 20th, 2007 7:29pm
You can use JumpKnowledge (www.jkn.com) to annotate the underlying page. You can use JKN in conjunction with Taskee by just pasting the Annotation Link into teh description.
Yaakov Sash
Founder, http://www.jkn.com
Marc Baizman says: June 21st, 2007 5:28am
I use FogBugz (http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/) free version and it really is pretty intuitive, even for the non-geeks who need to log bugs. I love it.
share.websitemagazine.com says: June 21st, 2007 7:27am
Taskee Simplifies Web Site Testing
If your web work involves delivering sites to customers (as it does for many of us), you’ve probably run into the mismatch between the average customer and the average bug-tracking system.
rick gregory says: June 21st, 2007 11:51am
What a great idea. Yeah, there are fairly easy to use bug tracking systems… but they all suffer from 2 issues - 1) the whole idea of a bug is foreign to most clients… they aren’t usually software folks and 2) they need to go somewhere else, log in, create a bug, describe things… and in many cases flip back to the page, etc etc. Having a simply button there that lets them comment directly on the page they have feedback on is great. I’ll signup and give it a try. It may or may not replace formal testing and bug tracking, but as a way to collect client feedback it sounds great.
Oh and one thing that tickles me in a “world is flat’ way - I read the terms of service and saw this - “These Terms of Use will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Slovakia.” So, either someone is having a lot of fun, or this is was done by folks way off the typical Web 2.0 beaten path… :)
Brian Purkiss says: June 21st, 2007 4:09pm
Now that’s really helpful. I’ll have to keep that in mind for future sites!
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mond says: June 22nd, 2007 5:03am
hi guys, this is Milan from Taskee
- yes we are from Slovakia ;) no jokes
- in couple of days Taskee will have another great feature that will allow site visitors to leave feedback that goes directly to Taskee URL related list or tasks (basically another small release)
- we look forward to seeing all your feedback, just give it a try
Diane Sastrom says: June 22nd, 2007 6:36pm
I use Protonotes to communicate with project team on web design. It allows you to add notes to an webpage. Basic functionality but very easy to use. http://www.protonotes.com/
Svetlana Gladkova says: June 25th, 2007 2:45am
I wonder how they treat AJAX applications with all the pages having the same URLs? Why would I need feedback when I don’t understand where it belongs?
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