Web DUE: A Usability Inspection Technique for Web Application Mockups Guided by Own Zones of Web Pages Web DUE: A Web Inspection Technique of Web Application Mockups Guided by Own Zones of Web Pages

• Luis Rivero UFAM
• Tayana Conte UFAM

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbqs.2014.15265

Abstract

Usability is one of the key factors for software quality that affects the acceptance of the developed applications. However, despite the increasing number of usability inspection methods for Web applications, most of the proposed methods can only be applied in later stages of the development process, which increases the cost of the identified problems. In order to solve that gap, in this master’s research we proposed the Design Usability Evaluation (DUE) technologies: (a) the Web DUE technique, which is specific for the usability inspection of low fidelity prototypes (or mockups) of Web applications; and (b) the Mockup DUE tool, which supports its inspection process. Besides showing how we developed these technologies, this paper presents their empirical evaluation, their evolution, and the obtained results and benefits from this research.

Keywords: Web Pages, Guided Web, Web DUE, Mockups

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