Improvement of a Web Engineering Method Through Usability Patterns

Usability is a feature of software quality that has traditional significance in the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) community. Recent works that have been proposed by the Software Engineering (SE) community are intended to improve the usability of software applications. This paper combines aspects that are defined in both these communities to produce usable web applications. To achieve this goal, a well-known strategy to improve usability is used: usability patterns. However, many usability patterns and guidelines could only be applied when the final system is implemented. In this work, STATUS patterns have been chosen because they solve usability issues at conceptual level. The main purpose of this paper is to improve the usability of Web Applications automatically generated by OOWS (a model-based web engineering method) applying the STATUS patterns.

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