Hina Iqbal; Muhammad Fahad Khan

Assimilation of Usability Engineering and User-Centered Design using Agile Software Development Approach

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Author(s)

Hina Iqbal ^1,* Muhammad Fahad Khan ¹

1. Department of Software Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijmecs.2014.10.04

Received: 15 Jun. 2014 / Revised: 10 Jul. 2014 / Accepted: 16 Aug. 2014 / Published: 8 Oct. 2014

Index Terms

Agile software development, UCD (User-Centered Design), UE (Usability Engineering).

Abstract

Various agile software development methodologies, since their commencement, encouraged the development of high quality software product. Quality of a product is the compelling trait that plays a vital role in any product’s success. Usability engineering and User centered design are user-centered approaches, covering the customer’s concerns. The way these approaches are understood and carried out with agile practices is not properly understood and adopted till now. For software applications to be usable and valuable it is necessary to understand the correct user requirements in order to develop the interface that is usable and valuable to the customer. In this research work, we are discussing the scrum approach of agile development and integrate this with the usability engineering and user centered design approaches which helps the agile development team to understand usability demand of users and develop a product according to their expectations.

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Hina Iqbal, Muhammad Fahad Khan, "Assimilation of Usability Engineering and User-Centered Design using Agile Software Development Approach", International Journal of Modern Education and Computer Science (IJMECS), vol.6, no.10, pp. 23-28, 2014. DOI:10.5815/ijmecs.2014.10.04

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