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Usability Report

Contents 1 Usability Report 1.1 Overview 1.2 Structure 1.3 Format 1.4 Reports archive 1.4.1 MySQL Server 5.1 1.4.2 MySQL Server 6.0 1.4.3 MySQL Migration Toolkit 1.4.4 MySQL Workbench 1.4.5 MySQL ODBC connector 1.4.6 MySQL JDBC connector

[edit] Usability Report

[edit] Overview

Usability reports are feedback from the community about usage of (new) features in the real world.

An usability report is a short account of the user's first impact on a newly tried feature, recording his/her expectations and the level of satisfaction achieved.

[edit] Structure

An usability report should have the following components.

• Product identification
  • product name
  • version used
  • date of experience
  • any other relevant information to identify what is being tested.
• Expectations
• Clarity of documentation
• Ease of use
• Real world usage
• Bugs
• Missing pieces
• Level of satisfaction
• (optional) Test units

[edit] Format

The preferred format is wiki markup, because ultimately these reports will go into MySQL Forge.

[edit] Reports archive

[edit] MySQL Server 5.1

• Usability report for table logs Giuseppe Maxia, August 2006.
• Event scheduler
• Partitioning
• XML functions
• Row-based replication

[edit] MySQL Server 6.0

• Falcon storage engine
• To do

[edit] MySQL Migration Toolkit

• To do

[edit] MySQL Workbench

• To do

[edit] MySQL ODBC connector

• To do

[edit] MySQL JDBC connector

• To do

Any takers?

Each feature product can have more reports. Each user's first impression is important. Feel free to add new features/products to review.