Incorporating Usability Evaluation in Software Development Environments

Usability Framework for E-Government Services in Developing Countries

“…Agile ensures that agile methods can easily incorporate changes before releasing the product [18]. Agile methods focus on customer involvement to establish, prioritize, and verifying the requirements [20]. The applicability of these methods is well suited to small projects with low life critical system as companies compete for customers [21].…”

“…The applicability of these methods is well suited to small projects with low life critical system as companies compete for customers [21]. [20] Observed that agile software developments methods such as Extreme Programming (XP), SCRUM, Feature Driven Development (FDD), and Dynamic System Development Method (DSDM) lacks user centered processes that can be utilized in agile processes for improving usability of software systems. According to [14] agile development methods cannot be considered user centered unless they are integrated with user centered approaches, because its values do not have the necessary focus on the user, user requirements and usability issues.…”

“…This has resulted in the inadequate addressed to usability requirements because usability testing is done through integrated development environment (IDE) [14]. Agile development teams also lack a process that can be appropriately used to integrate user centered method to be utilized in agile design process for addressing usability of software systems [20]. According to [22] there is a lack of collaboration with customers in software development because software is always developed before customer asks for them.…”

MobiGolog: formal task modelling for testing user gestures interaction in mobile applications

“…Below, we list some of the important predicates. The complete set of predicates is available in [8].…”

“…TaMoGolog (Task Modelling Golog) [6,8] task modelling language was built on the top of the Golog family [3,4,12] of high-level programming languages. It provides well-defined syntax and semantics, enables precondition axioms of task, states post condition effects to variables due to successful task execution, provides a rich set of operators, and gives the facility to express domain knowledge in task models.…”