Model-Driven Instrumentation of Graphical User Interfaces

In today’s continuously changing markets newly developed products often do not meet the demands and expectations of customers. Research on this problem identified a large gap between developer and user expectations. Approaches to bridge this gap are to provide the developers with better information on product usage and to create a fast feedback cycle that helps tackling usage problems. Therefore, the user interface of the product, the central point of human-computer interaction, has to be instrumented to collect accurate usage data which serves as basis for further improvement steps. This paper presents a novel engineering approach that combines model-driven user interface development and flexible instrumentation with run-time monitoring. In its application, it enables observation integration into products which provides comprehensive data about usage and thus allows for fast feedback cycles and consequently increased software quality. A casestudy demonstrates the applicability of...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ACHI
• Authors: Mathias Funk, Philip Hoyer, Stefan Link
• Keywords: Accurate Usage Data, ACHI 2009, Fast Feedback Cycles, Human Computer Interaction, User Interface