While usability methods such as user studies and inspections can reveal a wide range of problems, they do so for only a subset of an application’s features and states. We presen...
Hybrid chip multithreaded SMPs present new challenges as well as new opportunities to maximize performance. Our intention is to discover the optimal operating configuration of suc...
Testing a large-scale, real-life commercial software application is a very challenging task due to the constant changes in the software, the involvement of multiple programmers an...
Explosive increase in enduser computing on distributed systems requires that endusers develop application software by themselves. One solution is given as a formula of "a dom...
We conducted an ethnographic study to investigate the use of generic vs. task-specific application software by people who create and maintain presentation slides. Sixteen people w...