A new framework for usability evaluation web engineering methods

Abstract

Usability is an important attribute for measuring a quality of web engineering methods. Also, many usability evaluation methods proposed. The problem is web engineering methods can not complete web development lifecycle especially evaluation phase and the developers sometimes do not meet users’ expectations regarding usability. For expressing the actual feedback from developers directly, we have defined a new framework for usability evaluation of web engineering methods. The new framework consists of six phases, in these phases we defined web engineering process development, web application features, usability attributes, usability evaluation methods, and usability testing. In the usability testing, we use several ways for returning user’s feedback such as usability testing by expert and group developers, open-ended and close-ended questionnaires, and interviews. This framework is too strong for measuring usability of web engineering methods because it has reach feedback from developers.