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Reporting usability defects: a systematic literature review

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posted on 2017-09-01, 00:00 authored by N S M Yusop, John Grundy, Rajesh VasaRajesh Vasa
Usability defects can be found either by formal usability evaluation methods or indirectly during system testing or usage. No matter how they are discovered, these defects must be tracked and reported. However, empirical studies indicate that usability defects are often not clearly and fully described. This study aims to identify the state of the art in reporting of usability defects in the software engineering and usability engineering literature. We conducted a systematic literature review of usability defect reporting drawing from both the usability and software engineering literature from January 2000 until March 2016. As a result, a total of 57 studies were identified, in which we classified the studies into three categories: reporting usability defect information, analysing usability defect data and key challenges. Out of these, 20 were software engineering studies and 37 were usability studies. The results of this systematic literature review show that usability defect reporting processes suffer from a number of limitations, including: mixed data, inconsistency of terms and values of usability defect data, and insufficient attributes to classify usability defects. We make a number of recommendations to improve usability defect reporting and management in software engineering.

History

Journal

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volume

43

Issue

9

Pagination

848 - 867

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Location

Piscataway, N.J.

ISSN

0098-5589

Language

eng

Publication classification

C Journal article; C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2016, IEEE