scholarly journals The Impact of In-House Software Development Practices on System Usability in the Social Security Funds in Tanzania

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 21-32
Author(s):  
Hamis Fredrick Eliazer ◽  
Michael John Haule
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Critical Phenomenon ◽  
User Involvement ◽  
Main Stream ◽  
Software Usability ◽  
Usability Test ◽  
System Usability ◽  
Security Funds ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Software Development Practices

In-house software development is a critical phenomenon for the production of efficient and effective software in generating requisite job output. A few studies have devoted efforts towards establishing the impact of in-house software development on software. Therefore, this paper is an effort towards establishing the impact of in-house software development practices on system usability. In pursuit of this paper, a sample of a sample size of 169, at 95% confidence level, with margin error of 5% was drawn from bold software users, i.e. 300 employees who used the all software including those dealing with the main stream activities. A total of 102 respondents actually responded to the questionnaires. The Online Sample Calculator was used to draw the sample. Quantitative data were collected using semi-structured questionnaires and processed using the SPSS. Descriptive statistics were applied in the analysis. Findings of the study indicate that software development practices, specifically usability test and user involvement in software designing and development had an impact on determining software usability for in-house software. The paper concludes that software development practices shape the design of the software; hence influence usability of the software produced. Recommended is therefore that software usability test and user involvement in software designing and development be promoted for effective software production.

scholarly journals The impact of user involvement in software development process

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 354
Author(s):  
Nouf Bin saif ◽  
Mashael Almohawes ◽  
Nor Shahida Mohd Jamail
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Review Paper ◽  
User Involvement ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Extreme Programming ◽  
Software Development Process ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
The Impact

<p>In software development process, user can take part in any phase of the process, depending on what model is being applied. Lack of user involvement can result in a poorly designed solution, or even a solution that conflicts with user’s needs. This review paper presents the impact of user involvement in software development process. In this study, different software development processes will be reviewed, show where the user usually gets involved in different models such as: Structural (Waterfall, V-model) and incremental (Scrum-extreme programming XP). As each model differs from the other, each of them has a different perspective of where user should take part and where they should not. This can be an asset that helps project managers, and leaders to develop suitable strategies to follow in their projects.</p>

scholarly journals Are UX Evaluation Methods Providing the Same Big Picture?

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 3480
Author(s):  
Walter Takashi Nakamura ◽  
Iftekhar Ahmed ◽  
David Redmiles ◽  
Edson Oliveira ◽  
David Fernandes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Decision Process ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Evaluation Methods ◽  
Sentence Completion ◽  
Software Development Process ◽  
Software Application ◽  
Software Products ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
The Impact

The success of a software application is related to users’ willingness to keep using it. In this sense, evaluating User eXperience (UX) became an important part of the software development process. Researchers have been carrying out studies by employing various methods to evaluate the UX of software products. Some studies reported varied and even contradictory results when applying different UX evaluation methods, making it difficult for practitioners to identify which results to rely upon. However, these works did not evaluate the developers’ perspectives and their impacts on the decision process. Moreover, such studies focused on one-shot evaluations, which cannot assess whether the methods provide the same big picture of the experience (i.e., deteriorating, improving, or stable). This paper presents a longitudinal study in which 68 students evaluated the UX of an online judge system by employing AttrakDiff, UEQ, and Sentence Completion methods at three moments along a semester. This study reveals contrasting results between the methods, which affected developers’ decisions and interpretations. With this work, we intend to draw the HCI community’s attention to the contrast between different UX evaluation methods and the impact of their outcomes in the software development process.

scholarly journals Theorizing about software development practices

2015 ◽  
Vol 101 ◽  
pp. 124-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tero Päivärinta ◽  
Kari Smolander
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Software Development Practices

scholarly journals The Impact of Software Testing Governance Choices

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-85
Author(s):  
Xihui Zhang ◽  
Colin G. Onita ◽  
Jasbir S. Dhaliwal
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Software Testing ◽  
Governance Mechanisms ◽  
Individual Outcomes ◽  
Business Applications ◽  
It Managers ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Organizational Integration ◽  
Governance Choices ◽  
The Impact

Software testing is becoming a critical component of software development, especially because of the proliferation of complex, interconnected, and real-time business applications. As a result, information technology (IT) managers are struggling with pragmatic governance mechanisms for integrating testing with development. Governance issues pertaining to how software testing is organized at strategic, tactical, and operational levels, however, have not received adequate attention in the literature. This study explores the impact of three specific governance mechanisms, including the existence of a distinct corporate testing unit, developers and testers reporting to different executives, and the existence of one-to-one matching between developers and testers, on the organizational integration of testing with development. A national survey of 196 software development and testing professionals was undertaken to investigate the impact of these governance variables on a set of dependent variables comprising organizational, group, and individual outcomes. The results indicate that these governance mechanisms have significant impacts and need to be considered for successful integration of development and testing.

Evaluating the impact of service user involvement on research: a prospective case study

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 609-615 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemary Barber ◽  
Peter Beresford ◽  
Jonathan Boote ◽  
Cindy Cooper ◽  
Alison Faulkner
Keyword(s):  
Service User ◽  
User Involvement ◽  
Service User Involvement ◽  
The Impact
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