XPu: uma extensão do método xp visando à usabilidade

• Ano de defesa: 2009
• Autor(a) principal: Thiago Rocha Silva
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: métodos ágeis; Engenharia de Software; Engenharia de Usabilidade; Computação; Engenharia de software; Usabilidade
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/SLSS-7WMFMX

Agile methods have been received a great attention from the software development community in the last years. These methods propose an alternative for process driven software development on behalf of development with focus on the customer and the others stakeholders needs, on the constant delivery of functional software, on the iterative development based on delivery short cycles and on the acceptance of constant change of requirements through the development. On the other hand, usability processes specify practices through the development cycle that contribute for the end interface quality regarding to product usability. However, the agile methods do not treat practices related to usability. Because of that, this work proposes a method called XPu. The XPu was proposed as a XP extension and it has as main goal to deal with software products usability through an agile discipline. Results of an inspection and a case study comparing the development of a product using the XP and the XPu methods suggest a considerable quality