Questions tagged [usability]
Usability is the ease of use and learnability of a human-made object. To paraphrase, how simple is something to get some work done.
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Trade-off between usability and clean design
I have designed our in-house hardware testing framework. My goal is to ultimately release the framework into the public domain. Early on, my foremost design criterion was to provide a powerful yet ...
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Usability measures for evaluating UI
In Software Engineering book by Ian Sommerville 8 edition , more specifically in chapter 16 , the author has proposed the following usability attributes to evaluate UI :
I can't understand what is ...
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Is there a paradigm for working with data semantically instead of file-based?
I am looking for a name/paradigm/research area etc. that describes the notion of working with data not in the traditional file-based sense, but instead based on semantics. I can best explain what I am ...
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How many valid users to test the software that has been developed?
Anyone know, how many users are valid to use the prototype of the software that we have made? I have conducted research on the reference to the "Software Engineering A Practitioner's Approach book ...
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Measuring the usability / ease of use of RESTful API in Mobile Cloud Computing?
APIs vary in their complexity, functionality and also usability. In Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) applications, which are mainly mobile applications that offloads processing / storage to the cloud, ...
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Language Design: skipping occurrences of an identifier instead of accessing enclosing scope
No idea how to write a good title for this question.
I'm thinking about introducing an operator in a DSL that makes hidden identifiers (like variables) accessible. Think this.foo in Java or C# to ...
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How to deal with legacy functionality conflicting with new feature
I am working on a well established (aka clients using it for a while) video player. We recently found out that the drawing engine (ddraw) is deprecated in windows 8 and 10, and choose a modern ...
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Website form testing [closed]
My boss has three websites and each of those websites have forms on them that people can sign up for nightclubs.
He asked me to look up usability tests, however, I don't think that's what hes ...
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What is Black Box Testing? Are Functional and Usability Testing its types?
I am writing about testing, and I am confused about the following:
What exactly is Black-Box testing?
Are functional testing and Usability testing two different types of testing, and are they both ...
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Breadcrumbs in a modern web application, make sense? [closed]
I'm currently beginning with the development of a new web application. The whole web application is going to be bookmarkable and all the pages accesible via GET requests and url parameters. Having ...
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Multiple APIs, or one API with a "chooser" parameter?
Say you have a web service, which adds business logic on top of a data source. What each API of this service pretty much looks like is - given a set of constraints, give me the items from the data ...
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Should I force users to update an application?
I'm writing an application for a medium sized company that will be used by about 90% of our employees and our clients.
In planning for the future we decided to add functionality that will verify that ...
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Are animations and other eye candies considered non-functional requirements?
I've seen many lists on the internet that includes many 'ities' (maintainability, scalability, portability, etc), but I'm not sure if animations, screen transitions, and similar features are ...
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Remembering user credentials in standalone Application
I'm developing a standalone application using java, I have a Login screen, wherein user enters his username and password. For each instance of the application, user have to enter his credentials. From ...
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Has the syntax of any programming language been usability tested?
Before being release to the public, has the syntax of any programming language undergone usability testing? If so, what kinds of testing was performed, what were the results, and what impact did the ...
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