Abstract
Agile Software Engineering approaches gain more and more popularity in today’s development organizations. The need for usable products is also a growing factor for organizations. Thus, their development processes have to react on this demand and have to offer approaches to integrate the factor “usability” in their development processes. The approach presented in this paper evaluates how agile software engineering models consider activities of Usability Engineering to ensure the creation of usable software products. The user-centeredness of the two agile SE models Scrum and XP has been analyzed and the question of how potential gaps can be filled without loosing the process’ agility is discussed. As requirements play a decisive role during software development, in Software Engineering as well as Usability Engineering. Therefore, different User Centered Requirements that ensure the development of usable systems served as basis for the gap-analysis.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Beck, K.: Extreme Programming explained. Addison-Wesley, Boston (2000)
Boehm, B.: A Spiral Model of Software Development and Enhancement. IEEE Computer 21, 61–72 (1988)
Cohn, M.: User Stories Applied – For Agile Software Development. Addison-Wesley, Boston (2004)
Cooper, A.: About Face 2.0. Wiley Publishing Inc., Indianapolis, Chichester (2003)
DIN EN ISO 13407: Human-centered design processes for interactive systems. Brussels, CEN - European Committee for Standardization (1999)
DIN EN ISO 9241-11. Ergonomic requirements for office work with visual display terminals (VDTs) – Part 11: Guidance on usability. International Organization for Standardization (1998)
Ferre, X.: Integration of Usability Techniques into the Software Development Process. In: Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Software Engineering, Portland, pp. 28–35 (2003)
Larman, C.: Agile & Iterative Development – A Manager’s Guide. Addison-Wesley, Boston (2004)
Mayhew, D.J.: The Usability Engineering Lifecycle. Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco (1999)
Rosson, M.B., Carrol, J.M.: Usability Engineering: Scenario-Based Development of Human-Computer Interaction. Academic Press, London (2002)
Royce, W.: Managing the Development of Large Software Systems. In: Proceedings of IEEE WESCON. vol. 26, pp. 1–9 (August 1970)
Schwaber, K., Beedle, M.: Agile Software Development with Scrum. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River (2002)
Zimmermann, D., Groetzbach, L.: A Requirement Engineering Approach to User Centered Design. In: HCII 2007, Beijing (2007)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2007 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Düchting, M., Zimmermann, D., Nebe, K. (2007). Incorporating User Centered Requirement Engineering into Agile Software Development. In: Jacko, J.A. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. Interaction Design and Usability. HCI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4550. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73105-4_7
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73105-4_7
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-73104-7
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-73105-4
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)