Title :
Integrating Usability-Engineering into the Software Developing Processes of SME: A Case Study of Software Developing SME in Germany
Author :
Hering, Dominik ; Schwartz, Tobias ; Boden, Alexander ; Wulf, Volker
Author_Institution :
Dept. of User Centered Ubiquitous Comput., Fraunhofer Inst. for Appl. Inf. Technol. FIT, St. Augustin, Germany
Abstract :
Usability is an important factor for product quality. For German small and medium enterprises (SME) in the software branch, cheaper producing vendors from foreign countries can be considered as serious competition. Improving the usability of software products is a good way to secure competitiveness. However, integrating usability-engineering into development is a challenge for SME. In this note, we present the empirical results of a research project study with focus on software engineering processes in German software SME and possible constraints and chances for integrating usability-engineering.
Keywords :
integrated software; product quality; small-to-medium enterprises; software development management; software quality; SME; product quality; small and medium enterprises; software developing processes; software engineering processes; software product usability; usability engineering integration; Companies; Conferences; Interviews; Quality assessment; Software engineering; Usability; SME; Software-Engineering; Usability;
Conference_Titel :
Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE), 2015 IEEE/ACM 8th International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Florence
DOI :
10.1109/CHASE.2015.22
