How to integrate usability into the software development process

• DOI: 10.1145/1134285.1134515
• Publication Date: 2006-07-24T16:53:01Z
• Authors: Natalia Juristo; Xavier Ferre
• Keywords: Cognitive walkthrough; Usability goals; Component-based usability testing; System usability scale; Personal software process

Usability is increasingly recognized as a quality attribute that one has to explicitly deal with during development. Nevertheless, usability techniques, when applied, are decoupled from the software development process. The host of techniques offered by HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) field make task selecting most appropriate ones for given project and organization difficult task. Project managers developers aiming integrate practices into their process have face important challenges, not described in frame it understood SE (Software Engineering). Even experts (either in-house or an external organization) involved integration process, also tough endeavour due strong differences terminology overall approach between SE. In this tutorial we will present, viewpoint, which can be valuable teams little no previous experience, how particular set selected according specific characteristics project, match activity groups