TextTest

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Current Version 2.8.4

Windows executable: TextTestExe.zip
Source code: TextTest.zip

TextTest requires the Microsoft .NET 4.6.1 Framework. Download it here.
This software is distributed under the New BSD License agreement.

TextTest++ ?

For an updated web-based version of TextTest whose analysis algorithms supersede those of TextTest, see TextTest++. Note that TextTest still works just fine, but TextTest++ is capable of producing more measures and imposes fewer constraints on entering text during evaluations.

About TextTest

TextTest is a Windows software application (*.exe) that contains everything needed to conduct rigorous text entry experiments and analyze the results. It offers a configurable testing interface, log-file writing in a simple XML format, log-file parsing and analysis, numerous state-of-the-art text entry measures, character-level error rate measures, and character-level confusion matrices. It comes with MacKenzie & Soukoreff's (2003) popular phrase set but can be used with custom phrases. TextTest is also capable of sending and receiving text over the network, including to/from other applications via TCP and to/from web pages via WebSockets. Two additional resources, TcpSendText.exe and TextTest.html, are provided to show each of these capabilities, respectively.

Where is StreamAnalyzer?

StreamAnalyzer was a separate program that partnered with TextTest to analyze the text entry logs TextTest produced. StreamAnalyzer has since been incorporated into TextTest, and can be accessed via TextTest's "Analyze" menu.

Publication

If you use TextTest in your project, please cite:

Wobbrock, J.O. and Myers, B.A. (2006). Analyzing the input stream for character-level errors in unconstrained text entry evaluations. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 13 (4), pp. 458-489. DOI: 10.1145/1188816.1188819