This paper presents a lightweight form of usage-centered design that has proved particularly effective in designing highly usable Webbased applications. Fully compatible with both traditional object-oriented software engineering methods and newer agile techniques such as Extreme Programming, this approach employs rapid, card-based techniques to develop simplified models of user roles, tasks, an...

A xiomatic design offers a systematic and orderly way to proceed through the software development process. The methodology ensures that developers make the best possible design decisions by providing decision-making criteria in the form of two axioms: • The independence axiom suggests that the best designs maintain the independence of the functional requirements, ensuring that the design can ac...

Software security becomes a critically important issue for software development when more and more malicious attacks explore the security holes in software systems. To avoid security problems, a large software system design may reuse good security solutions by applying security patterns. Security patterns document expert solutions to common security problems and capture best practices on secure...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are indeed the engines of global economic growth. Their continued growth is a major subject for the economy and employment of any country. Towards that end, virtual research and development (R&D) could be a viable option to sustain and ease the operations of SMEs. However, literature shows there has not been a great deal of research into the diverse cha...

ISO 13407 is a description of best practice in user centred design. It provides guidance on design activities that take place throughout the life cycle of interactive systems. It describes an iterative development cycle where product requirements specifications correctly account for user and organisational requirements as well as specifying the context in which the product is to be used. Design...

Coordinating distributed processes, especially engineering and software design processes, has been a research topic for some time now. Several approaches have been published that aim at coordinating large projects in general, and large software development processes in specific. However, most of these approaches focus on the technical part of the design process and omit management activities li...

This paper presents a state-based approach to testing aspect-oriented programs. Aspectual state models, as an extension to the testable FREE state model of classes, are exploited to capture the impact of aspects on the state models of classes. To generate test suites for adequately testing object behavior and interaction between classes and aspects in terms of message sequences, we transform an...

Participatory design is a major orienting position in contemporary debates about design methods. In my own areas of research -human-computer interaction and computersupported co-operative work, it has transformed thinking about the role of users in the software development process. However, participatory design refers to a high-level feature of design methods that can be implemented in myriad w...

Sustaining innovation in a fast growing software development company is difficult. As organisations grow, peoples’ focus often changes from the big picture of the product being developed to the specific role they fill. This paper presents two complementary approaches that were successfully used to support continued developer-driven innovation in a rapidly growing Australian agile software devel...

This paper proposes the use of an interaction modelling language called MoLIC to graphically represent scenarios as an additional resource in software development. MoLIC brings human-computer interaction (HCI) concerns to software engineering processes. It does so by representing potential usersystem interaction paths, which will not only allow software designers to make decisions about the HCI...