Requirements Engineering Related Usability Techniques Adopted in Agile Development Processes

Magües, Daniel A.; Castro, John W.; Acuña, Silvia T.

doi:10.18293/seke2016-057

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“…Out of the 133 articles, 24 deal with usability (user) testing, which seems to be the main way users are involved in the software development process. What is lacking here is more important than what is there: except for UCD books such as The UX Book (Hartson and Pyla, 2018) and requirement engineering articles as reviewed by others (Magües et al, 2016b) there is no mention of actively involving users formulating the original requirements in abstracts, instead user requirements are considered as given or are based on assumptions/heuristics. This approach inevitably leads to conflicts in fixed-price projects (Kropp and Koischwitz, 2016) where usability issues come up only at user testing.…”

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confidence: 99%

Achieving Usability: Looking for Connections between User-Centred Design Practices and Resultant Usability Metrics in Agile Software Development

Nemeth

Bekmukhambetova

2023

Period. Polytech. Soc. Man. Sci.

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This article searches for correlations between the practices of usability professionals from software development teams and the resulting usability of the system they are working on. After reviewing the literature of the past decade, we can conclude that most researchers try to achieve better usability with process proposals, but measurements focus on perceived usability. The level of involvement of users in the requirements capture phase is unclear. There is a trend to reduce costs of usability engineering, either by choosing more lightweight and informal methods or by trying to substitute user involvement. Looking at decade's worth of 452 articles about "agile AND usability" in Scopus, we selected 133 which deal with the integration of usability, UX and User Centred Design practices and Agile development.

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Section: Factors Affecting Usability Adoptionmentioning

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Achieving Usability: Looking for Connections between User-Centred Design Practices and Resultant Usability Metrics in Agile Software Development

Nemeth

Bekmukhambetova

2023

Period. Polytech. Soc. Man. Sci.

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“…Some highlight the limitations of agile methods when managing QRs and the risks of neglecting QRs [11,[16][17][18]21], and some identify strategies for managing QRs in ASD, such as the AFFINE framework, NORMAP, and SENoR [11]. Others explicitly include QRs in the user story definition [20] and techniques for managing usability in agile [19,48]. However, no secondary studies analyze these strategies comprehensively.…”

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“…Despite the need to better understand the management of QRs in ASD and RSD, the body of knowledge on this topic is not well structured. While there are secondary studies [10,11,[16][17][18][19][20][21][22] that examine state-of-the-art of requirements engineering (RE) in the context of ASD, only Alsaqaf et al [10] and Villamizar et al [22] specifically focused on QRs. However, Alsaqaf et al [10] did so only in the context of large-scale ASD, whereas Villamizar et al [22] examined only how security is handled in ASD.…”

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Management of quality requirements in agile and rapid software development: A systematic mapping study

Behutiye

Karhapää

López³

et al. 2020

Information and Software Technology

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Context: Quality requirements (QRs) describe the desired quality of software, and they play an important role in the success of software projects. In agile software development (ASD), QRs are often ill-defined and not well addressed due to the focus on quickly delivering functionality. Rapid software development (RSD) approaches (e.g., continuous delivery and continuous deployment), which shorten delivery times, are more prone to neglect QRs. Despite the significance of QRs in both ASD and RSD, there is limited synthesized knowledge on their management in those approaches.Objective: This study aims to synthesize state-of-the-art knowledge about QR management in ASD and RSD, focusing on three aspects: bibliometric, strategies, and challenges. Research method: Using a systematic mapping study with a snowballing search strategy, we identified and structured the literature on QR management in ASD and RSD. Results: We found 156 primary studies: 106 are empirical studies, 16 are experience reports, and 34 are theoretical studies. Security and performance were the most commonly reported QR types. We identified various QR management strategies: 74 practices, 43 methods, 13 models, 12 frameworks, 11 advices, 10 tools, and 7 guidelines. Additionally, we identified 18 categories and 4 non-recurring challenges of managing QRs. The limited ability of ASD to handle QRs, time constraints due to short iteration cycles, limitations regarding the testing of QRs and neglect of QRs were the top categories of challenges. Conclusion: Management of QRs is significant in ASD and is becoming important in RSD. This study identified research gaps, such as the need for more tools and guidelines, lightweight QR management strategies that fit short iteration cycles, investigations of the link between QRs challenges and technical debt, and extension of empirical validation of existing strategies to a wider context. It also synthesizes QR management strategies and challenges, which may be useful for practitioners.

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“…Although there have been other systematic studies related to the integration of UCD within agile software development processes (ASDPs) [ 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 ], they focus on the problems of integration rather than on addressing the integration strategies of the techniques, and none of them focus specifically on Personas. Since Personas was found to be the most commonly used technique for usability adoption in ASDPs [ 20 ], we deem it necessary to investigate the different integration strategies that have been adopted. To this end, our study aims to propose an adaptation to the Personas technique by identifying the different approaches to its integration through a literature review carried out by means of a systematic mapping study (SMS).…”

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A Systematic Mapping Study on Integration Proposals of the Personas Technique in Agile Methodologies

Losana

Castro

Ferré

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Sensors

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Agile development processes are increasing their consideration of usability by integrating various user-centered design techniques throughout development. One such technique is Personas, which proposes the creation of fictitious users with real preferences to drive application design. Since applying this technique conflicts with the time constraints of agile development, Personas has been adapted over the years. Our objective is to determine the adoption level and type of integration, as well as to propose improvements to the Personas technique for agile development. A systematic mapping study was performed, retrieving 28 articles grouped by agile methodology type. We found some common integration strategies regardless of the specific agile approach, along with some frequent problems, mainly related to Persona modelling and context representation. Based on these limitations, we propose an adaptation to the technique in order to reduce the creation time for a preliminary persona. The number of publications dealing with Personas and agile development is increasing, which reveals a growing interest in the application of this technique to develop usable agile software.

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Requirements Engineering Related Usability Techniques Adopted in Agile Development Processes

Cited by 8 publications

References 38 publications

Achieving Usability: Looking for Connections between User-Centred Design Practices and Resultant Usability Metrics in Agile Software Development

Achieving Usability: Looking for Connections between User-Centred Design Practices and Resultant Usability Metrics in Agile Software Development

Management of quality requirements in agile and rapid software development: A systematic mapping study

A Systematic Mapping Study on Integration Proposals of the Personas Technique in Agile Methodologies

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