Proposal and Validation of Usability Model for Component Based Software System

Authors

  • Jyoti Agarwal Amity University Uttar Pradesh
  • Sanjay Kumar Dubey Amity University Uttar Pradesh
  • Rajdev Tiwari Greater Noida Institute of Engineering and Technology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4186/ej.2017.21.5.243

Keywords:

Software, Component, Usability, Model, Factor, Fuzzy, centroid, center of gravity, mean-max, bisector

Abstract

Increasing demand of rapid and cost effective development of software system has increased the demand of Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE). In CBSE, software system is developed by using existing components. These components can be in-house components or third party components. To develop a Component Based Software System (CBSS), it is important to select the suitable component in such a manner that the components of the software system do not affect each other. To increase the acceptance of the CBSS among the users and the market value of the software industries, it is important to increase the usability of the CBSS. Several usability models have been proposed for traditional and object-oriented software system (OOSS), but there is no usability model for CBSS. Existing traditional and object-oriented models can’t be perfectly suitable for CBSS because of the unique characteristics of the components. This paper presents a usability model (UMCBSS) for CBSS. The proposed usability model is based on most significant usability factors. These factors are analysed from CBSS quality models. With the help of proposed model, usability is evaluated by using two different techniques i.e., centroid method and bisector method in MATLAB. Experimental results are also validated by using Center of Gravity (COG) and Mean-Max method. With the help of the proposed model, developers of the CBSS will be able to measure the usability of CBSS and to remove the usability flaws from the software system.

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Author Biographies

Jyoti Agarwal

Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India

Sanjay Kumar Dubey

Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India

Rajdev Tiwari

Greater Noida Institute of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida, India

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Published In
Vol 21 No 5, Sep 29, 2017
How to Cite
[1]
J. Agarwal, S. K. Dubey, and R. Tiwari, “Proposal and Validation of Usability Model for Component Based Software System”, Eng. J., vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 243-255, Sep. 2017.