Title :
Web Usability Testing ― CARE Methodology
Author :
Anandhan, A. ; Dhandapani, S. ; Reza, H. ; Namasivayam, K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., North Dakota Univ., Grand Forks, ND
Abstract :
Usability testing is a technique that is used to elicit the quality of systems and sites by regular tests carried with the potential users. Testing Web sites for usability requires an understanding of the sites´ audience, category, content, usability goal and how to measure to achieve these goals. There is a whole variety of usability testing methods available for Web based testing. But our main objective was to make a pick of those right methods that could be implemented to test usability of any Web application given a short time, small budget and fewer resources. This paper describes how a combination of some of the existing methods resulted in CARE (cheap, accurate, reliable, efficient testing), a new methodology. CARE could be engaged to surmount the constraints on cost, time and resources
Keywords :
Web design; human computer interaction; Web sites; Web usability testing; codiscovery method; question asking protocol; thinking aloud protocol; user testing; Application software; Computer science; Costs; Neodymium; Performance evaluation; Protocols; Software quality; System testing; Time factors; Usability; Usability; co-discovery method; evaluation; question asking protocol; questionnaire; thinking aloud protocol; user testing;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology: New Generations, 2006. ITNG 2006. Third International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Las Vegas, NV
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2497-4
DOI :
10.1109/ITNG.2006.141