Incorporating Usability Evaluation in Software Development Environments

Abstract

We propose a way to define and automate user and usability evaluation from within the integrated development environment (IDE). Specifically, for the automatic analysis of usability issues and functionality problems, we provide a framework for conducting evaluation experiments using TaMoGolog-based formal task models. This approach enables the software development team to automatically collect and analyze users and system activities and behavior for recognizing usability issues and functionality problems in an efficient and effective way. The developed tools, UEMan and TaMUlator, provide the realization of the proposed approach and framework at the IDE level.