Improvement of Open Source Software Usability: An Empirical Evaluation from Developers' Perspective

Improvement of Open Source Software Usability: An Empirical Evaluation from Developers' Perspective

An Empirical Study of Open Source Software Usability

Recent years have seen a sharp increase in the use of open source projects by common novice users; Open Source Software (OSS) is thus no longer a reserved arena for software developers and computer gurus. Although user-centered designs are gaining popularity in OSS, usability is still not considered one of the prime objectives in many design scenarios. This paper analyzes industry users’ percep...

Contributors Preference in Open Source Software Usability: An Empirical Study

The fact that the number of users of open source software (OSS) is practically un-limited and that ultimately the software quality is determined by end user’s experience, makes the usability an even more critical quality attribute than it is for proprietary software. With the sharp increase in use of open source projects by both individuals and organizations, the level of usability and related ...

Is usability evaluation important: the perspective of novice software developers

Usability evaluation is an important and strategic activity in software projects (IEEE Computer Society, 2004). Its relevance had been recognized in the context of the user (Lindgaard & Chattratichart, 2007) and the software organization (Bak et al., 2008). However, several studies had identified important obstacles to its applicacion in software developement process (Bak et al., 2008; Ardito e...

An Empirical Study of Open Source Software Usability: The Industrial Perspective

Recent years have seen a sharp increase in the use of open source projects by common novice users; Open Source Software (OSS) is thus no longer a reserved arena for software developers and computer gurus. Although user-centered designs are gaining popularity in OSS, usability is still not considered one of the prime objectives in many design scenarios. This paper analyzes industry users’ percep...