Two weeks ago, I posted a survey (using Excel Surveys available in SkyDrive) asking you what your preferred/primary .NET mocking framework was. We plan to use this data to help drive out which frameworks we want to evaluate further.
The survey closed yesterday and, out of 147 responses, here is how everything shook out:
147 responses may not seem like a lot and, in the grand scheme of all .NET developers across the world, it’s not. There are several ways you can look at this number: Out of everyone that viewed the survey request, the majority of them didn’t want to take the time to give their input; they don’t use .NET-based technologies and/or mocking frameworks; I just didn’t reach a wide enough audience and/or provide enough time to get the word out about the survey; or there was some other reason they didn’t bother with the survey that I’m just not thinking of at the moment.
In regards to this penultimate point above, here was my general approach for getting the survey link out:
- Posted to my blog – just over 225 page views (as of a few moments ago) – not a huge number by any stretch
- Posted to my twitter feed – roughly 250 followers – again, not a huge number. This one is a little harder to judge because I don’t know how many times it was re-tweeted, copied and tweeted, etc.
- Posted to Google+ – don’t know the impact – likely very, very small
- Posted on my LinkedIn timeline – 279 connections
- Posted on two separate LinkedIn groups: .NET Developers & .NET Professional with .NET Developers having a membership of about 148,000
- Various e-mail distribution lists – not sure of the count
Click here to view the full survey results.
[Updated: Fixed broken survey link]