Increasing usability for web engineering methods

Increasing usability for web engineering methods

Karzan WakilDayang N.A. Jawawi 

Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia

University of Human Development-Iraq

Corresponding Author Email: 
karzanwakil@gmail.com
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93-97
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DOI: 
https://doi.org/ 10.18280/rces.040302
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Abstract: 

Usability is considered to be one of the most important quality factors for products, and accordingly, there are a number of MDWE methods existing which can develop web applications. With the rapid evolution of web applications, existing MDWE methods has a number of weaknesses was appeared in the process development web applications; one of the issues is usability problem. There are many factors to increase usability of MDWE methods such as adaptability, lifecycle, user interface and so on. In this paper, we define a new framework to increase usability for MDWE methods through two important factors that are adaptability and lifecycle. Increased usability will ultimately lead to increased quality of the methods. Furthermore, increased quality of web engineering solutions would subsequently lead to improved usability for websites and web applications.

Keywords: 

Usability, MDWE, Adaptability, Lifecycle, Web

1. Introduction
2. Related work
3. Analyzing usability in mdwe
4. Define a new framework to increase usability
5. Conclusion and future work
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