Usability Testing Essentials: Ready, Set...Test!

Usability Testing Essentials: Ready, Set...Test!

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-382

  Barnu, Carol M ^a  

^a Southern Polytechnic   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/C2009-0-20478-8     Document Type: Book

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