• DocumentCode
    3473974
  • 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
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    10-12 April 2006
  • Firstpage
    495
  • Lastpage
    500
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Technology: New Generations, 2006. ITNG 2006. Third International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Las Vegas, NV
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-2497-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ITNG.2006.141
  • Filename
    1611641