Incorporating usability requirements in a test/model-driven web engineering approach

Journal of Web Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 132-156

  Luna, Esteban Robles ^b   Panach, Josë Ignacio ^a   Grigera, Juliän ^b   Rossi, Gustavo ^b   Pastor, Oscar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Conceptual models; Model Driven development; Test driven development; Usability

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE DESIGNS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DEVELOPMENT CYCLE; KEY FACTORS; KEY FEATURE; MODEL-BASED; MODEL-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY STANDARD; QUALITY SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT; USABILITY; USABILITY REQUIREMENTS; VISUAL APPEARANCE; WEB APPLICATION; WEB ENGINEERING;

USABILITY ENGINEERING; VISUALIZATION;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 79551626645     PISSN: 15409589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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