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A tool to support usability inspection

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Carmelo Ardito,

Rosa Lanzilotti,

Paolo Buono,

Antonio PiccinnoAuthors Info & Claims

AVI '06: Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces

Pages 278 - 281

https://doi.org/10.1145/1133265.1133322

Published: 23 May 2006 Publication History

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SUIT (Systematic Usability Inspection Tool) is an Internet-based tool that supports the evaluators during the usability inspection of software applications. SUIT makes it possible to reach inspectors everywhere, guiding them in their activities. Differently from other tools that have been proposed in literature, SUIT not only supports the activities of a single evaluator, but permits to manage a team of evaluators who can perform peer reviews of their inspection works and merge their individual reports in a single document on which they agree.

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A tool to support usability inspection
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI design and evaluation methods
    2. Interaction paradigms
      1. Graphical user interfaces
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software verification and validation
      1. Software defect analysis
        Software testing and debugging

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DOI:10.1145/1133265

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