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- Adage Usability - Providing usability services such as heuristic evaluation and usability testing, based in Finland.
- KDE Usability Testing - Describes various usability testing performed, and some steps that should be taken to improve usability.
- Institut für Software-Ergonomie und Usability - Präsentation der Kernkompetenzen im Bereich Software-Ergonomie, Usability-Beratung, Usability-Analysen und Usability-Tests.
- Adaptive Path - 90% of All Usability Testing is Useless - Lane Becker writes, "Rather than a validation done once before completing a product... internal, qualitative usability testing [should be] done earlier, more frequently, and as part of the design process - not separate from it."
- The University of Waikato Usability Laboratory - An academic group doing Usability testing and consulting
- WDVL: Usability Testing in Practice - Reveals one company's usability testing practices and procesures.
- IS Integration - Specializing in corporate load testing, functionality, usability testing, user acceptance testing, CMMI and integrating business solutions to FTSE 100 companies.
- Krug, Steve: Advanced Common Sense - Steve Krug, author of Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, provides consulting services including expert reviews of existing sites and new designs, usability workshops, and usability testing.
- Usability News - Online newsletter from the Software Usability Research Laboratory at Wichita State University. Features articles on usability testing, UI design, and HCI research for organizations.
- Breakthrough Usability, Inc. - User performance testing services, based in Florida, USA.
Wikipedia Articles
- Usability testing - Usability testing is a means for measuring how well people can use some human-made object (such as a web page, a computer interface, a document, or a device) for its intended purpose, i.e.
- RITE Method - Rapid Iterative Testing and Evaluation, typically referred to as "RITE" testing is a usability method coined and mostly documented by Michael Medlock at Microsoft. It is similar to traditional discount usability testing, however differs in that the data are analyzed after each participant, or at the end of each day of testing, changes to the interface are made ...
- Betaware - Betaware is a nickname for software which has passed the alpha testing stage of development and has been released to a limited amount of users for software testing before its official release. Beta testing allows the developers of a game to undergo usability testing with users who provide feedback, any malfunctions these users find in the game can be reported to the developers and fixed.
- Software testing - Software testing is the process used to measure the quality of developed computer software. Usually, quality is constrained to such topics as correctness, completeness, security, but can also include more technical requirements as described under the ISO standard ISO 9126, such as capability, reliability, efficiency, portability, maintainability, compatibility, and usability.
- Learnability - In software testing learnability, according to ISO 9126, is the capability of a software product to enable the user to learn how to use it. Learnability may be considered as an aspect of usability, and is of major concern in the design of complex software applications.