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Research Interests:
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Software process descriptions, Software process metamodels, Usability evaluation
Research Title:
Evaluating the Usability of Software Process
Descriptions
Abstract:
Usability is an important quality attribute to
be considered during the design and development of software process
descriptions. To date, the demand for usable software process descriptions
is high but in practice, process descriptions suffer from usability
problems. As a result, process descriptions are difficult to understand and
enact by process performers. In this research, we proposes a usability
evaluation framework that permits important usability issues to be addressed
proactively during the design and development of process descriptions
instead of during process enactment. We argue that our usability evaluation
framework provides the groundwork to create an engineering discipline for
software process description design and development - to make it a
manageable process rather than an ad-hoc one. We plan to use surveys,
controlled experiments and expert judgment techniques to validate and modify
our evaluation framework. The aim of this research is to support software
process engineers in providing process descriptions usability evidence
through a set of measurable factors incorporated in our evaluation
framework.
Supervisors:
Assoc. Prof. David
Carrington
Prof. Paul Strooper
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