Evolving the scope of user-centered design
Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM
A flexible approach to third-party usability
Communications of the ACM
Organizing usability work to fit the full product range
Communications of the ACM
Peer testing in Software Engineering Projects
ACE '04 Proceedings of the Sixth Australasian Conference on Computing Education - Volume 30
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Usability testing is performed by software development companies to determine whether their software systems are usable. Not only development companies but also end-user companies run usability studies. Given the importance of usability testing in industry, it seems equally important to teach students the basic elements of usability testing. Usability testing can be incorporated into a capstone course.Students can learn about user-centered design and what makes software usable by running usability tests. Usability testing consists of three phases-preparing for the testing, running the actual test, and analyzing test results. Each phase is described in detail in this article, which also contains a description of how usability testing can be incorporated as an assignment in a capstone course or a software engineering sequence.