Hybrid of Agile Process and Usability Evaluation Method

Agile software development is one of the most widely used methodologies for software development. It plans to improve software quality and responsiveness to modifying client requirements. Agile software development is based on an iterative cycle with the goal of faster distribution of solutions with on-going user participation. To improve the market value of software, usability evaluation techniques in software model helps to gain user satisfaction and increase product market value. Producing rapid solutions by agile software methods leads to the deficiency of good design and architecture is regarded to be very expensive if followed. As a remedy, a proposed life cycle for agile software development has been designed. The proposed life cycle outlined in this paper integrate usability evaluation concepts and agile software methodologies for the development of interactive software. To achieve the result, a survey form was designed and conducted worldwide. The results show a greater interest of usability at the early stage of development along with the user participation at every stage. To evaluate the proposed life cycle and IEEE Std 12207-2008, ISO 9241:210 was used to validate the proposed software model.