Usability Testing
Duration
12
hours
Location
Online
Language
English
Code
SQA-001
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Description
The course is aimed to explore usability of software applications, the principles of user interface design and the up-to-date usability approaches. The following topics are discussed:- Standards related to Usability;
- Usability as quality attribute, its characteristics;
- Definition of Usability;
- Definition of User Interface. Properties of modern UI;
- Standardization and consistency of UI;
- Usability throughout the software life cycle;
- Cognitive psychology basics;
- User interface design basics;
- Usability approaches:
- Design;
- Prototyping;
- Usability testing;
- Expert judgment;
- Usability research approaches.
Create GUI Specification document;
Design metaphor of UI;
Design UI template with paper-prototyping approach;
Interviewing of user’s satisfaction from UI;
Usability testing with checklist approach;
Usability assessment with checklist approach.
After completing the course, a certificate
is issued on the Luxoft Training form
is issued on the Luxoft Training form
Objectives
- To create basic understanding of usability concept as part of software development
- To give practical advices about using of UI design approaches
- To give practical advices about performing of usability testing and UI assessment
Target Audience
- Test engineers
- Test designers
Roadmap
- Definition of Usability
- Standards related to Usability
- Usability as quality attribute
- Ergonomic characteristic as part of software quality
- Questions, which are resolved with Usability
- Definition of User Interface
- Definition of UI
- UI evolution stages
- Principles and properties of modern UI
- Consistency
- Cognitive psychology basics
- Cognitive psychology
- Locus of attention
- Short-term and long-term memory
- Usability throughout the software life cycle
- Usability throughout the software life cycle: activities and artifacts
- Usability activities groups
- Stages of UI design
- Project roles corresponding to Usability
- UI design basics
- IBM standards about Usability principles
- Metaphor. Conceptual model
- Rules of UI forms design
- Usability principles corresponding to Web-applications
- Solution of Usability problems in applications for mobile devices
- Usability approaches
- Usability research
- Usability testing
- Expert judgment
- Guide throughout usability testing types
- Literature
- For beginners
- UI design
- Usability testing
- Web usability
- Web resources