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This article discusses the improvement in usability of interactive systems through the transfer of methods, tools and concepts between software engineering and HCI. It explores commonalities between these two communities, and shows how usability testing can be incorporated within different models of the software development process. Techniques and methods for usability testing differ widely depending on the development stage, resources available, and the competence of the assessors. This paper shows that each usability technique has a natural anchor point within the software development process. However, in practice such techniques are not exploited by the software community. This article suggests complementary ways of improving the situation.
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Coutaz, J. (1995). Evaluation techniques: Exploring the intersection of HCI and software engineering. In: Taylor, R.N., Coutaz, J. (eds) Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction. SE-HCI 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 896. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0035806
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