Usability testing

[qainfotech pvtltd]

Measuring usability: How do you define and gauge an application's user experience- explain in details.

[Deepak Kumar]

Usability can be defined as ease with which a user can learn to operate the software and interpret its results.   Following points need to be considered while measuring usability of a software:   - It measures the effectiveness and the efficiency in context of use. - To measure usability we need a model that would cover understandability, learnability, operability, attractiveness, and usability of the system. - These factors cannot be measured but perceived by effectiveness,user satisfaction and performance evaluation. - Decision complexity or set of alternatives involved from which user can choose and memory overload involved. - The design of the software,the web pages and their linking with each other.It covers all aspects like buttons, text etc.