A framework for capturing the relationship between usability and software architecture

Software Process Improvement and Practice

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 67-87

  Folmer, Eelke ^a   Van Gurp, Jilles ^a   Bosch, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Software architecture; Usability; Usability patterns

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COSTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY CONTROL; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; USABILITY; USABILITY PATTERNS; WORKING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 14344250091     PISSN: 10774866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spip.171     Document Type: Article

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