I was having *such* a hard time figuring out how to set up Scone to do user testing. I knew it came with a plugin that would do practically everything I wanted, but… the documentation was in German!

W- offered to lend me his German language tapes. ;)

After MUCH struggling with it and *lots* of trial and error, though, I eventually figured out where I was supposed to configure the plugin in order to get it to load.

For posterity, here’s how to do it:

1. Download and unpack Scone from http://www.scone.de.
2. mysql -u root -p
3. In the MySQL client, CREATE DATABASE scone
4. mysql scone -u root -p < setup/sconedb.sql
5. mysql scone -u root -p < setup/setUserRights.sql
6. Edit run/config/scone/db.xml and change the database name from Scone to scone.
7. sh runScone.sh -g
8. Register plugin: run/setup/wbi/scone.reg
9. sh runScone.sh -config
10. Register plugin: scone.usertesttool.UserTestTool
11. Set your web browser proxy to localhost, port 8088
12. Visit usertest.scone.de

TADA!

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