uzReview Documentation

What is heuristic review?

Heuristic review is a process for inspecting software according to a small set of empirically validated guidelines. For an explanation of how these principles apply to the web, visit Site Usability Heuristics for the Web

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Uzilla Review Documentation.

Uzilla Review (uzReview) is a tool for heuristic evaluation of web-based user interfaces.

To begin, select Window -> uzReview to display the sidebar. You can toggle the sidebar with F8.

Your saved projects will appear in a list and you can resume them. Use the form to start a new project.

Modes: Running and Viewing.

Conducting a review

There are two key modes in the review process, keyword and url. The url mode is for logging heuristics based upon the current page. Keyword mode is for workflows and allows you to group a set of comments across a set of pages.

You can switch between keyword and url mode at any time, logging against the page in both modes.

URL mode

In URL mode, your evaluations are automatically recorded with each page change. If no heuristics were logged, no record of the page visit is made in the log.

Keyword mode

In keyword mode, every page visited is logged into the heuristic-result file, even if you don't log evaluations on each page.
Usage Scenarios


Continuing a Review

Reviews may be continued.

Working with Results

The results of a uzReview are stored in XML in the projects folder [-]. From this XML file, uzReview will generate an HTML report.

Report View

By Page/Keyword


Advanced Usage Scenarios

Customizing the heuristics

Using other browser windows

If you wish to browse sites other than the current review, use a separate window. It is also possible to conduct two reviews at the same time in separate windows.

Tabbed Browsing

Each tab in a tabbed-browsing session is available to uzReview when it is in focus. This may disrupt your ability to follow pageflows in keyword tagged reviews as the navigations between tabs will be recorded in your trail.
Please file RFE's at mozdev.