Usability of Development Tools: A CASE-Study
Usability of Development Tools: A CASE-Study
复制标题
开发工具的可用性：案例研究
DOI：
--
复制
发表时间：
2019
期刊：
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
H. Hussmann
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Thomas Weber;Alois Zoitl;H. Hussmann
为了在实践中促进模型驱动的开发，我们需要支持和授权开发人员的工具。然而，它的许多工具在可用性方面有点缺乏，这可能会成为采用模型驱动方法的主要障碍，并阻碍生产率。在模型驱动的工具中寻找具体的可用性缺陷的努力仍然相对较少，在人机交互社区中，高度专业化的专家软件的可用性也不是一个突出的主题。在这项工作中，我们使用一些可用性评估方法在4diac IDE上进行了评估，作为模型驱动的工程工具的例子，以了解什么是有效的，问题在哪里。对于那些不同的方法，我们发现了相当多的不同严重程度的可用性问题，以及一些指示，哪些方法在什么环境下工作。当然，这些发现有助于具体改进4diac IDE，但也提供了更一般的见解，可能有助于其他工具改善其用户体验。总体而言，我们的评估表明，确实需要更好的可用性和更多的评估。
To facilitate model-driven development in practice, we need tools that support and empower developers. Many of the tools for it, however, are somewhat lacking with respect to usability, which can act as a major obstacle in adopting a model-driven approach and impede productivity. Efforts to find concrete usability flaws in model-driven tools are still relatively rare, and in the human computer interaction community, usability for highly specialized expert software is also not a prominent topic. In this work we conduct an evaluation using a number of usability evaluations methods on the 4diac IDE as an example of a model-driven engineering tool to see what works and where the problems are. With those different methods we found a considerable number of usability issues of varying severity as well as some indication which methods work in what context. These findings of course help improving the 4diac IDE specifically but also offer more general insights that may benefit other tools in improving their user experience. Overall our evaluation shows that there is a definite need for better usability and more evaluation of it.