Evaluating an Inspection Technique for Use Case Specifications - Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis

Natasha M. Costa Valentim, Tayana Conte, José Carlos Maldonado

2015

Abstract

Usability inspections in early stages of the development process help revealing problems that can be corrected at a lower cost than at advanced stages of the development. The MIT 1 (Model Inspection Technique for Usability Evaluation) is a usability inspection technique, which aims to anticipate usability problems through the evaluation of use cases. This technique was evaluated using a controlled experiment aimed at measuring its efficiency and effectiveness, when compared to the Heuristic Evaluation (HEV) method. According to quantitative results, the MIT 1 exceeded the HEV in terms of effectiveness and obtained a similar performance in terms of efficiency. In other words, the MIT 1 allows finding more problems than the HEV. On the other hand, the subjects spent more time finding these problems using MIT 1. Moreover, the MIT 1 was considered easy to use and useful by the subjects of the study. We analysed the qualitative data using the procedures from the Grounded Theory (GT) method and results indicate improvement opportunities.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

M. Costa Valentim N., Conte T. and Maldonado J. (2015). Evaluating an Inspection Technique for Use Case Specifications - Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis . In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-098-7, pages 13-24. DOI: 10.5220/0005374100130024

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis15,
author={Natasha M. Costa Valentim and Tayana Conte and José Carlos Maldonado},
title={Evaluating an Inspection Technique for Use Case Specifications - Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2015},
pages={13-24},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005374100130024},
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 - Evaluating an Inspection Technique for Use Case Specifications - Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis
SN - 978-989-758-098-7
AU - M. Costa Valentim N.
AU - Conte T.
AU - Maldonado J.
PY - 2015
SP - 13
EP - 24
DO - 10.5220/0005374100130024