Experimentation in software engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
How effective are software engineering methods?
Journal of Systems and Software
Usability inspection methods
The role of experimentation in software engineering: past, current, and future
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Software engineering
Building Knowledge through Families of Experiments
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Experimentation in software engineering: an introduction
Experimentation in software engineering: an introduction
Web Modeling Language (WebML): a modeling language for designing Web sites
Proceedings of the 9th international World Wide Web conference on Computer networks : the international journal of computer and telecommunications netowrking
Guidelines for Hypermedia Usability Inspection
IEEE MultiMedia
Quality Attributes of Web Software Applications
IEEE Software
Preliminary guidelines for empirical research in software engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
The Evaluation of GRADD: A GDSS Supporting Asynchronous and Distributed Meetings
CRIWG '00 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Groupware
The Experimental Paradigm in Software Engineering
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Experimental Software Engineering Issues: Critical Assessment and Future Directions
Applying user testing data to UEM performance metrics
CHI '04 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Two psychology-based usability inspection techniques studied in a diary experiment
Proceedings of the third Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A Survey of Controlled Experiments in Software Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
An Experimental Investigation of Formality in UML-Based Development
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Current practice in measuring usability: Challenges to usability studies and research
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Heuristic evaluation of paper-based Web pages: a simplified inspection usability methodology
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Examining the technology acceptance model using physician acceptance of telemedicine technology
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Strategic and competitive information systems
Early Usability Evaluation in Model Driven Architecture Environments
QSIC '06 Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Quality Software
Heuristic evaluation: Comparing ways of finding and reporting usability problems
Interacting with Computers
Meta-analysis of correlations among usability measures
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A comparative study of two usability evaluation methods using a web-based e-learning application
Proceedings of the 2007 annual research conference of the South African institute of computer scientists and information technologists on IT research in developing countries
Systematic review: A systematic review of effect size in software engineering experiments
Information and Software Technology
Usability inspection methods after 15 years of research and practice
SIGDOC '07 Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication
Guidelines for Eliciting Usability Functionalities
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
The role of replications in empirical software engineering--a word of warning
Empirical Software Engineering
The role of replications in Empirical Software Engineering
Empirical Software Engineering
Towards interoperable Web engineering methods
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A Realistic Empirical Evaluation of the Costs and Benefits of UML in Software Maintenance
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Proceedings of the Second ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
The growth of cognitive modeling in human-computer interaction since GOMS
Human-Computer Interaction
Damaged merchandise? a review of experiments that compare usability evaluation methods
Human-Computer Interaction
Evaluating legacy system migration technologies through empirical studies
Information and Software Technology
A family of experiments to evaluate a functional size measurement procedure for Web applications
Journal of Systems and Software
A Model-Driven Engineering Approach for the Usability of Plastic User Interfaces
Engineering Interactive Systems
Advances in Engineering Software
Engineering Web Applications
Integrating a Usability Model into Model-Driven Web Development Processes
WISE '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Number of people required for usability evaluation: the 10±2 rule
Communications of the ACM
Towards a common metamodel for the development of web applications
ICWE'03 Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Web engineering
Evaluating usability evaluation methods: criteria, method and a case study
HCI'07 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human-computer interaction: interaction design and usability
Quality of web usability evaluation methods: an empirical study on MiLE+
WISE'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Web information systems engineering
Dogmas in the assessment of usability evaluation methods
Behaviour & Information Technology
Modeling web quality using a probabilistic approach: An empirical validation
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
Towards to the validation of a usability evaluation method for model-driven web development
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
A Survey of Requirements Specification in Model-Driven Development of Web Applications
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
Usability evaluation methods for the web: A systematic mapping study
Information and Software Technology
Evaluating requirements modeling methods based on user perceptions: A family of experiments
Information Sciences: an International Journal
A web usability evaluation process for model-driven web development
CAiSE'11 Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
Information and Software Technology
Sample size in usability studies
Communications of the ACM
The TAME project: towards improvement-oriented software environments
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
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Web applications should be usable in order to be accepted by users and to improve their success probability. Despite the fact that this requirement has promoted the emergence of several usability evaluation methods, there is a need for empirically validated methods that provide evidence about their effectiveness and that can be properly integrated into early stages of Web development processes. Model-driven Web development processes have grown in popularity over the last few years, and offer a suitable context in which to perform early usability evaluations due to their intrinsic traceability mechanisms. These issues have motivated us to propose a Web Usability Evaluation Process (WUEP) which can be integrated into model-driven Web development processes. This paper presents a family of experiments that we have carried out to empirically validate WUEP. The family of experiments was carried out by 64 participants, including PhD and Master's computer science students. The objective of the experiments was to evaluate the participants' effectiveness, efficiency, perceived ease of use and perceived satisfaction when using WUEP in comparison to an industrial widely used inspection method: Heuristic Evaluation (HE). The statistical analysis and meta-analysis of the data obtained separately from each experiment indicated that WUEP is more effective and efficient than HE in the detection of usability problems. The evaluators were also more satisfied when applying WUEP, and found it easier to use than HE. Although further experiments must be carried out to strengthen these results, WUEP has proved to be a promising usability inspection method for Web applications which have been developed by using model-driven development processes.