Solution to Interpretation

contributed by: Joep Schuurkes

“You can add reminders in Google Calendar. Reminders carry over to the next day until you mark them as done. For example, if you create a reminder to make a restaurant reservation, you’ll see the reminder each day until you mark it as done.”

Exercise

  1. Reminders carry over to the next day until you mark them as done.
    Reminders, so not events? Is there something else besides reminders and events?

  2. Reminders carry over to the next day until you mark them as done.
    Not hour, not week, not whatever, but day.

  3. Reminders carry over to the next day until you mark them as done.
    What if I cross the international date line?

  4. Reminders carry over to the next day until you mark them as done.
    What else can I do with a reminder? Edit, delete, …?

  5. Reminders carry over to the next day until you mark them as done.
    What other states can a reminder be in?

  6. Reminders carry over to the next day until you mark them as done.
    Can anyone/anything else than me change the status of a reminder?

  7. Reminders carry over to the next day until you mark them as done.
    So when will I be reminded again? At midnight? At some configured time?

  8. Reminders carry over to the next day until you mark them as done.
    Can I do anything else to have them not carry over?

  9. Reminders carry over to the next day until you mark them as done.
    When is the carrying over scheduled by the app?

  10. Reminders carry over to the next day until you mark them as done.
    So multi-select is available?

Evaluation

  1. Has your interpretation of the sentence become richer through this exercise?
    Yes, there is a lot more meaning to distill from the sentence than I initially thought.

  2. How different could two implementations be, if their developers did not share all of these interpretations?
    There definitely could be differences because of the different states a reminder can be in and because of the distinction between the app doing the carrying over and the app re-reminding the user.

  3. Based on your different interpretations, where do you think are good places to look for bugs?
    (1) crossing the international date line or changing the date of the device clock
    (2) state changes of a reminder: different changes by different actors (if possible) in combination with the carrying over