Integrating the Usability into the Software Development Process - A Systematic Mapping Study

Williamson Silva, Natasha M. Costa Valentim, Tayana Conte

2015

Abstract

With the increasing use of interactive applications, there is a need for a development with better quality and a good interaction that facilitates the use for end users, because such applications are increasingly present in daily life. Therefore, it is necessary to include usability, which is one of the important quality attributes, in the development process for obtaining good acceptance rates and, consequently, improving the quality of these applications. In this paper we present a Systematic Mapping Study (SM) that assists categorizing and summarizing technologies that have been used in order to improve usability. The results from our SM show some technologies that can help improving usability in various applications. Also, it identifies gaps that still need to be researched. We found that most technologies have been proposed for the Testing phase (67.28%) and that Web applications are the most evaluated type of application (52.65%). We also identified that few technologies assist designers improving usability in the early stages of the development process (13.50% Analysis phase and 15.95% Design phase). The results from this SM allow observing the state of the art regarding technologies that can be integrated into the development process, aimed at improving the usability of interactive applications.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Silva W., Costa Valentim N. and Conte T. (2015). Integrating the Usability into the Software Development Process - A Systematic Mapping Study . In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-098-7, pages 105-113. DOI: 10.5220/0005377701050113

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis15,
author={Williamson Silva and Natasha M. Costa Valentim and Tayana Conte},
title={Integrating the Usability into the Software Development Process - A Systematic Mapping Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2015},
pages={105-113},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005377701050113},
isbn={978-989-758-098-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - Integrating the Usability into the Software Development Process - A Systematic Mapping Study
SN - 978-989-758-098-7
AU - Silva W.
AU - Costa Valentim N.
AU - Conte T.
PY - 2015
SP - 105
EP - 113
DO - 10.5220/0005377701050113