Context In recent years, many usability evaluation methods (UEMs) have been employed to
evaluate Web applications. However, many of these applications still do not meet most …

Software testing is a difficult task and testing Web-based applications may be even more
difficult, due to the peculiarities of such applications. In the last years, several problems in …

UML-based Web Engineering (UWE; www. pst. ifi. lmu. de/projekte/uwe) came up at the end
of the 1990s (Baumeister et al., 1999; Wirsing et al., 1999) with the idea to find a standard …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to classify the most important metrics proposed for
web information systems, with the aim of offering the user a global vision of the state of the …

Context Web applications development is at its peak due to the advance of technological
trends and the constant dependence of the Internet. As a result of the needs of developers …

While Web applications evolve towards ubiquitous, enterprise-wide or multienterprise
information systems, they face new requirements, such as the capability of managing …

Software systems start to include other types of interfaces beyond the “traditional” Graphical-
User Interfaces (GUIs). In particular, Conversational User Interfaces (CUIs) such as chat and …

Front-end design of mobile applications is a complex and multidisciplinary task, where many
perspectives intersect and the user experience must be perfectly tailored to the application …

Multi-core platforms represent the answer of the industry to the increasing demand for
computational capabilities. From a real-time perspective, however, the inherent sharing of …

Traditionally, Web applications have had great limitations in the usability and interactivity of
their user interfaces. To overcome these limitations, a new type of Web applications called …