Kobold: web usability as a service

Autores
Grigera, Julián; Garrido, Alejandra; Rossi, Gustavo Héctor
Año de publicación
2017
Idioma
inglés
Tipo de recurso
documento de conferencia
Estado
versión enviada
Descripción
While Web applications have become pervasive in today’s business, social interaction and information exchange, their usability is often deficient, even being a key factor for a website success. Usability problems repeat across websites, and many of them have been catalogued, but usability evaluation and repair still remains expensive. There are efforts from both the academy and industry to automate usability testing or to provide automatic statistics, but they rarely offer concrete solutions. These solutions appear as guidelines or patterns that developers can follow manually. This paper presents Kobold, a tool that detects usability problems from real user interaction (UI) events and repairs them automatically when possible, at least suggesting concrete solutions. By using the refactoring technique and its associated concept of bad smell, Kobold mines UI events to detect usability smells and applies usability refactorings on the client to correct them. The purpose of Kobold is to deliver usability advice and solutions as a service (SaaS) for developers, allowing them to respond to feedback of the real use of their applications and improve usability incrementally, even when there are no usability experts on the team. Kobold is available at: http://autorefactoring.lifia.info.unlp.edu.ar. A screencast is available at https://youtu.be/c-myYPMUh0Q
Materia
Ciencias de la Computación
Web Usability
Software as a Service
Usability Refactoring
Nivel de accesibilidad
acceso abierto
Condiciones de uso
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Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
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title Kobold: web usability as a service
spellingShingle Kobold: web usability as a service
Grigera, Julián
Ciencias de la Computación
Web Usability
Software as a Service
Usability Refactoring
title_short Kobold: web usability as a service
title_full Kobold: web usability as a service
title_fullStr Kobold: web usability as a service
title_full_unstemmed Kobold: web usability as a service
title_sort Kobold: web usability as a service
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Garrido, Alejandra
Rossi, Gustavo Héctor
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Garrido, Alejandra
Rossi, Gustavo Héctor
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Rossi, Gustavo Héctor
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Web Usability
Software as a Service
Usability Refactoring
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Web Usability
Software as a Service
Usability Refactoring
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