Title
A proposal to elicit usability requirements within a model-driven development environment
Date Issued
01 October 2014
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Panach J.I.
Pastor Ó.
Universitat Politècnica de València
Publisher(s)
IGI Global
Abstract
Nowadays there are sound Model-Driven Development (MDD) methods that deal with functional requirements, but in general, usability is not considered from the early stages of the development. Analysts that work with MDD implement usability features manually once the code has been generated. This manual implementation contradicts the MDD paradigm and it may involve much rework. This paper proposes a method to elicit usability requirements at early stages of the software development process such a way non-experts at usability can use it. The approach consists of organizing several interface design guidelines and usability guidelines in a tree structure. These guidelines are shown to the analyst through questions that she/he must ask to the end-user. Answers to these questions mark the path throughout the tree structure. At the end of the process, the paper gathers all the answers of the end-user to obtain the set of usability requirements. If it represents usability requirements according to the conceptual models that compose the framework of a MDD method, these requirements can be the input for next steps of the software development process. The approach is validated with a laboratory demonstration.
Start page
1
End page
21
Volume
5
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84919336137
Source
International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design
ISSN of the container
19478186
DOI of the container
10.4018/ijismd.2014100101
Source funding
Generalitat Valenciana
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
European Regional Development Fund
Sponsor(s)
This work has been developed with the support of MICINN (SMART-ADAPT TIN2013-42981-P), UV (UV-INV-PRECOMP13-115032), GVA (PROMETEOII/2014/039), and co-financed with ERDF. We also acknowledge the support of the Intra European Marie Curie Fellowship Grant 50911302 PIEF-2010. We also thank Sergio España, Francisco Valverde, Marcela Ruiz and María Jose Villanueva for their participation in the experimental validation.
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