Training Videos
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Video
Your First Testing Session
Video (7:43): test the pre-installed Museums of New York demo project, walk through the survey with the extension and report your first issues.
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Video
Your First Project
Video (5:52): create your own SurveyTester project from a survey link, using our demo survey or one of yours, and run the first test on it.
Company Admin Settings
General Queries
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Article
Best practices: from a new project to sign-off
The recommended order for a SurveyTester project: one language first, a manual run, test cases, SurveyBots, findings and issues, more languages, milestones, sign-off.
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FAQ
Installing the SurveyTester Extension
SurveyTester works directly in your browser through a browser extension. Installing it takes just a few minutes and unlocks all the testing and…
Issues
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FAQ
Creating A New Issue
The Issues feature allows testers to log, track, and review issues identified while testing a survey. Issues can be created directly from the survey…
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FAQ
Exporting Issues to Excel
Once issues are logged in SurveyTester, users have the option to export them into an Excel file for further analysis or reporting. You can either…
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FAQ
Result Filter (older version)
Result Filter allows you to narrow down the list of issues displayed under the Issues tab. By applying filters, you can quickly locate a specific issue…
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Article
Spell check
SurveyTester spell-checks every tested page in the language of the test run and reports typos as findings: what is checked, what is left out, and how to handle brands.
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Article
Input field too narrow
SurveyTester measures every text and number field on the live page and reports fields too narrow for the typed value or for the longest allowed value.
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FAQ
Result Filter (newer version)
Survey Tester provides powerful filtering capabilities to help you find and analyze issues, test runs, pages, and translations. Filters can combine…
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How-to
Reason for closing and re-opening issues
Make users enter a reason whenever an issue is closed or re-opened, per project type. The reason is kept in the issue history and shown in the issue list.
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Article
Automatic re-check of fixed issues
Mark fixed issues for a re-check. SurveyTester tests them again on the next capture, tells you whether the problem is gone, and you confirm the result.
Pages & Routing
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Question expectations - what the programming must do
State per question what the survey must do - rotate, keep a fixed order, show items from an earlier question, draw a subset - and let every test run check it.
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Article
Question structure preview
Open any question from the Pages table: answer options and rows with labels, exclusive flags, screenout markers, expectations and selection counts.
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Article
Testing MaxDiff questions
SurveyTester answers MaxDiff tasks like a respondent and judges the design across all test runs: item balance, pair coverage, row rotation, with a verdict and score.
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Article
Testing TURF questions
Mark a question as TURF and SurveyTester checks what the analysis needs: every item to every respondent, rotation, one scale, no answer limit, a None.
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Article
Testing questions that show a random subset of items
SurveyTester recognises questions that show every respondent only part of their items, counts the shows per item and tells a balanced draw from a random or biased one.
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How-to
Export the tested survey as a questionnaire or Dimensions script
Turn what SurveyTester detected while testing into a Word questionnaire or a UNICOM Intelligence (Dimensions) script, per language, with programmer's notes.
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Article
Blocks in the routing diagram - MaxDiff, Conjoint and loops as one node
The routing diagram draws MaxDiff and Conjoint tasks and loops as one block node, detects loops on its own and lets you rename, confirm or build blocks.
Project Details
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Article
Working with the questionnaire document
Upload the Word, Excel or PDF questionnaire: SurveyTester reads it into a model, derives testcases and bots, verifies the programmed survey and compares its texts.
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How-to
Comparing a project with a previous wave
Link a project to the project it was scripted from and get every difference listed: pages, questions, texts, answer options and routing, with planned changes ticked off.
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How-to
Conditional testcase answers
A testcase can answer a question differently depending on the sample record or on earlier answers: condition columns with ALL, ANY and NONE groups, first match wins.
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How-to
Testcase answers that follow another question or the sample record
Let a testcase question repeat the answer of an earlier question, and keep the sample record of a test run consistent with what the testcase answers.
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How-to
Test cases from the survey's own rules
When the survey system or the questionnaire document marks which options screen a respondent out, SurveyTester builds the Completed and Screenout test cases - without AI.
Test Run
Test Surveys
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FAQ
Using SurveyTester with Incognito Mode
When testing online surveys, browser state matters more than many teams realize. Cookies, local storage, cached scripts, and login sessions can all…
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How-to
Test surveys on mobile devices with device emulation
SurveyTester tests the mobile version of a survey by emulating phones and tablets in Chrome. Choose a device and orientation in Test Survey, then test as usual.
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FAQ
Using Sample with a project
Can I use Sample IDs with SurveyTester?
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FAQ
TestCase Popup not available
Q: I created a Test Case but don’t see the pop-up on the Survey Tester bar at the bottom of the page. What should I do?
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FAQ
My survey starts with a login page
Login pages in front of a survey are released at once in manual tests, and SurveyTester never stores them.
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FAQ
Enable Incognito mode
To enable using Survey Tester in Incognito mode, please follow the steps below.
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FAQ
Auto Answer
How does Survey Tester learn to auto-answer questions?
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FAQ
Qualtrics Test Runs Not Starting Fresh
When initiating a test run in Qualtrics, the platform may reopen a previous test session instead of starting a new one. This behavior commonly occurs…
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Article
Testing Zoho Survey questionnaires
SurveyTester reads Zoho Survey forms natively: pages, questions and options are recognised, display logic and validation errors recorded, bots answer the survey.
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Article
Testing QuestionPro surveys
SurveyTester reads QuestionPro surveys natively: every question type is recognised, validation errors recorded, bots answer pricing, MaxDiff and conjoint.
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Article
Testing ERGOQUEST surveys
SurveyTester reads ERGOQUEST surveys natively: choice, grid, image and open questions, randomised and filtered options, validation messages.
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Testing Emazing surveys
SurveyTester reads Emazing Retailing surveys natively: screener questions, the shopping simulation with listing, product pages and cart, follow-ups per product.
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Testing CMIX surveys
SurveyTester reads Dynata CMIX surveys natively: choice, grid, button select, card sort, slider, ranking and open questions, plus validation messages.
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Testing SurveyFox surveys
SurveyTester reads SurveyFox surveys natively: every question type is recognised, options matched by label, required-answer errors recorded, bots answer.
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Article
Testing Voxco CATI surveys
Test Voxco CATI surveys through Interviewer Web: logon, project selection and the CATI menu are released at once, the interview is recorded.
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Article
Testing LamaPoll surveys
SurveyTester reads LamaPoll surveys natively: choice, text, scale, matrix and ranking questions are recognised and LamaPoll's error messages recorded.
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Testing Survio surveys
SurveyTester reads Survio surveys natively: welcome page, every question type, sliders, rankings, required-answer warnings and the thank-you page.
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Testing SoSci Survey questionnaires
SurveyTester reads SoSci Survey questionnaires natively: every page, grids with a don't-know column, sliders, other-specify fields and the goodbye page.
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Article
Testing Exavo SurveyStudio surveys
SurveyTester reads Exavo SurveyStudio surveys natively: every page, smiley grids, other-specify fields, chip games, card sorts and the end page.
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FAQ
SurveyBot Location
The SurveyBot Location feature allows users to select a specific geographic location when running a SurveyBot test. This helps validate survey behavior…
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Article
Testing Rogator G3plus surveys
SurveyTester reads Rogator G3plus surveys natively: every page, matrices, double matrices, sliders, number and date fields and the end page.
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FAQ
Use Personas for Generating Answers
Create responses from predefined personas with specific demographic or behavioral attributes.
Sandbox
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How-to
Sandbox: find a flawed MaxDiff design and confirm the fix
Try the MaxDiff balance check on two demo surveys: run SurveyBots on a flawed design, set a milestone, switch to the corrected design and compare.
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How-to
Sandbox: check how a long brand list is spread over respondents
Try the item exposure check on a demo survey that shows 25 of 200 brands per respondent: run SurveyBots and see SurveyTester judge the draw.
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How-to
Sandbox: re-check fixed issues with "What's next"
Walk through the full fix-and-retest loop on a demo survey: findings and manual issues, a corrected script, automatic re-checks and your final decision.
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How-to
Sandbox: check a survey against its Word questionnaire
Create a project with a demo survey and its Word questionnaire, run SurveyBots while the document is analysed, then match the questionnaire with the test runs.