Introducing usability in a conceptual modeling-based software development process

Authors:
Jose Ignacio Panach Navarrete;Natalia Juristo Juzgado;Óscar Pastor
Affiliations:
Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria, Departament d'Informàtica, Universitat de València, Burjassot, València, Spain;Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain;Centro de Investigación en Métodos de Producción de Software, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain
Venue:
ER'12 Proceedings of the 31st international conference on Conceptual Modeling
Year:
2012

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Abstract

Usability plays an important role to satisfy users' needs. There are many recommendations in the HCI literature on how to improve software usability. Our research focuses on such recommendations that affect the system architecture rather than just the interface. However, improving software usability in aspects that affect architecture increases the analyst's workload and development complexity. This paper proposes a solution based on model-driven development. We propose representing functional usability mechanisms abstractly by means of conceptual primitives. The analyst will use these primitives to incorporate functional usability features at the early stages of the development process. Following the model-driven development paradigm, these features are then automatically transformed into subsequent steps of development, a practice that is hidden from the analyst.