@inproceedings{ab46b3f5d2b84a6794fe3a3db85525d6,
title = "Testing interactive software: A challenge for usability and reliability",
abstract = "Recent years have seen an increasing use of sophisticated interaction techniques including in the field of safety critical interactive software [8]. The use of such techniques has been required in order to increase the bandwidth between the users and systems and thus to help them deal efficiently with increasingly complex systems. These techniques come from research and innovation done in the field of humancomputer interaction (HCI). A significant effort is currently being undertaken by the HCI community in order to apply and extend current usability evaluation techniques to these new kinds of interaction techniques. However, very little has been done to improve the reliability of software offering these kinds of interaction techniques. Even testing basic graphical user interfaces remains a challenge that has rarely been addressed in the field of software engineering [9]. However, the non reliability of interactive software can jeopardize usability evaluation by showing unexpected or undesired behaviors. The aim of this SIG is to provide a forum for both researchers and practitioners interested in testing interactive software. Our goal is to define a roadmap of activities to cross fertilize usability and reliability testing of these kinds of systems to minimize duplicate efforts in both communities.",
keywords = "Human error, Reliability safety critical systems, Software testing, Usability",
author = "Philippe Palanque and Regina Bernhaupt and Ronald Boring and Chris Johnson",
year = "2006",
doi = "10.1145/1125451.1189335",
language = "English",
isbn = "1595932984",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
pages = "448",
booktitle = "CHI'06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA'06",
note = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2006 ; Conference date: 22-04-2006 Through 27-04-2006",
}