Analyzing the Architectural Support of Usability

  • Authors:
  • Bettina Biel;Volker Gruhn

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SEAA '10 Proceedings of the 2010 36th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Since usability requirements can have an impact on software architecture, they should be considered in the software architecture design. We present the method ``Software ArchitecTure analysis of Usability Requirements realizatioN'' (SATURN) during which architects and analysts conduct well-established usability requirements engineering methods (usage context specification, walkthrough, brainstorming) before selecting relevant scenarios from a knowledge base of generic scenarios. Results of a business case study show that the method and its tools are comprehensible to usability non-experts, effective, and efficient.