Usability Meanings and Interpretations in ISO Standards

  • Authors:
  • Alain Abran;Adel Khelifi;Witold Suryn;Ahmed Seffah

  • Affiliations:
  • École de Technologie Supérieure, Montréal, Canada aabran@ele.etsmtl.ca;École de Technologie Supérieure, Montréal, Canada adel@khelifi.com;École de Technologie Supérieure, Montréal, Canada wsuryn@ele.etsmtl.ca;Human-Centered Software Engineering Group, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada seffah@cs.concordia.ca

  • Venue:
  • Software Quality Control
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The usability of a software product has recently become a key software quality factor. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has developed a variety of models to specify and measure software usability but these individual models do not support all usability aspects. Furthermore, they are not yet well integrated into current software engineering practices and lack tool support. The aim of this research is to survey the actual representation (meanings and interpretations) of usability in ISO standards, indicate some of existing limitations and address them by proposing an enhanced, normative model for the evaluation of software usability.