The focus on usability in testing practices in industry

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Volumn 332, Issue , 2010, Pages 98-109

  Larusdottir, Marta Kristin ^a,b   Bjarnadottir, Emma Run ^c   Gulliksen, Jan ^b  

^a REYKJAVIK UNIVERSITY   (Iceland)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c Calidris Ltd   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Agile development; Practitioners; Scrum; Software testing; Usability

Indexed keywords

AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTEGRATION TESTING; ITERATIVE METHODS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE TESTING; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

ACCEPTANCE TESTING; AGILE DEVELOPMENT; AGILE SOFTWARE PROCESS; PRACTITIONERS; SCRUM; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAMS; TESTING TECHNIQUE; USABILITY;

ACCEPTANCE TESTS;

EID: 84943635442     PISSN: 18684238     EISSN: 1868422X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15231-3_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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