Data-Driven Usability Refactoring : Tools and Challenges

Autores
Garrido, Alejandra; Firmenich, Sergio Damián; Grigera, Julián; Rossi, Gustavo Héctor
Año de publicación
2017
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inglés
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Descripción
Usability has long been recognized as an important software quality attribute and it has become essential in web application development and maintenance. However, it is still hard to integrate usability evaluation and improvement practices in the software development process. Moreover, these practices are usually unaffordable for small to medium-sized companies. In this position paper we propose an approach and tools to allow the crowd of web users participate in the process of usability evaluation and repair. Since we use the refactoring technique for usability improvement, we introduce the notion of “data-driven refactoring”: use data from the mass of users to learn about refactoring opportunities, plus also about refactoring effectiveness. This creates an improvement cycle where some refactorings may be discarded while others introduced, depending on their evaluated success. The paper also discusses some of the challenges that we foresee ahead.
Laboratorio de Investigación y Formación en Informática Avanzada
Materia
Ciencias Informáticas
Usability
A/B testing
Accessibility
Crowdsourcing
Refactoring
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Data-Driven Usability Refactoring : Tools and Challenges
title Data-Driven Usability Refactoring : Tools and Challenges
spellingShingle Data-Driven Usability Refactoring : Tools and Challenges
Garrido, Alejandra
Ciencias Informáticas
Usability
A/B testing
Accessibility
Crowdsourcing
Refactoring
title_short Data-Driven Usability Refactoring : Tools and Challenges
title_full Data-Driven Usability Refactoring : Tools and Challenges
title_fullStr Data-Driven Usability Refactoring : Tools and Challenges
title_full_unstemmed Data-Driven Usability Refactoring : Tools and Challenges
title_sort Data-Driven Usability Refactoring : Tools and Challenges
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Garrido, Alejandra
Firmenich, Sergio Damián
Grigera, Julián
Rossi, Gustavo Héctor
author Garrido, Alejandra
author_facet Garrido, Alejandra
Firmenich, Sergio Damián
Grigera, Julián
Rossi, Gustavo Héctor
author_role author
author2 Firmenich, Sergio Damián
Grigera, Julián
Rossi, Gustavo Héctor
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author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Informáticas
Usability
A/B testing
Accessibility
Crowdsourcing
Refactoring
topic Ciencias Informáticas
Usability
A/B testing
Accessibility
Crowdsourcing
Refactoring
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Laboratorio de Investigación y Formación en Informática Avanzada
description Usability has long been recognized as an important software quality attribute and it has become essential in web application development and maintenance. However, it is still hard to integrate usability evaluation and improvement practices in the software development process. Moreover, these practices are usually unaffordable for small to medium-sized companies. In this position paper we propose an approach and tools to allow the crowd of web users participate in the process of usability evaluation and repair. Since we use the refactoring technique for usability improvement, we introduce the notion of “data-driven refactoring”: use data from the mass of users to learn about refactoring opportunities, plus also about refactoring effectiveness. This creates an improvement cycle where some refactorings may be discarded while others introduced, depending on their evaluated success. The paper also discusses some of the challenges that we foresee ahead.
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