Integrating Field Studies in Agile Development to Evaluate Usability on Context Dependant Mobile Applications
Juan Miguel López, Maite Urretavizcaya, Begoña Losada, Isabel Fernández-Castro · 2014
Agile development is a current trend in Software Engineering which is encouraged by the special needs of interactive systems that require incorporating usability engineering in their development processes. In this regard, how usability assessment of mobile interactive applications should be conducted in the frame of agile methodologies is an open question. On the one hand, usability evaluation consumes time and resources, which can make agile methodologies lose their agile essence. On the other hand, there is a considerable debate about whether user interactions with mobile systems should be investigated in the field or in more traditional laboratory environments.