Finding a Place for Discount Usability Engineering in Agile Development: Throwing Down the Gauntlet

  • Authors:
  • David Kane

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ADC '03 Proceedings of the Conference on Agile Development
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Many software development organizations arereporting great success with agile softwaredevelopment techniques. However, fewtechniques explicitly incorporate usabilityengineering. Further, some agile techniques maynot address certain kinds of usability problems,e.g. they may not address the needs of novices aswell as expert users. While there are manytechniques for usability engineering, discountusability engineering should be of particularinterest to the agile development communitybecause the two disciplines share many of thesame underlying principles. The challenge forthe agile development community is to find waysto incorporate and gain value from such discountusability engineering practices.