from the first stages of development provide an
estimation of product usability.
¾ Some metrics frequently used in Literature, have
a relative importance for developers (e.g. number
of pages and number of images). This is because
the developed products are complex, with the use
of dynamic generation of pages, and the use of
Content Management Systems. There is a
necessity of metrics and frameworks for that.
4 FUTURE WORK
As we said in the introduction, our work has the
purpose of creating web applications quality
indicators. We consider it essential to take into
account the vision of quality of web professionals.
To do so, we have divided our task into two stages,
the first stage he consists in having a first
approximation to metrics considered relevant by
developers and sites and web applications
administrators. As a result of this, we have obtained
that the best valuated metrics are Updated
Information, Suitable Information, Download Time,
Global Style Uniformity and Scoped Search.
The second stage consists of determining the
importance of each metric with respect to each
quality characteristic and each phase of the life cycle
process. Therefore, we must obtain the metric
weights with the purpose of obtaining quality
indicators of a site or a web application.
However, before starting the second stage, we
aim at carrying out the survey again using a different
group of subjects to check the validity of the
obtained results. The indicators obtained in our work
must be able to be incorporated into web
development methodologies.
Other aspect to be considered (considering the
importance given to usability) is the incorporation of
metrics for estimating the end product usability
during the development. The same happens with
accessibility.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We would like to thank all participants in this survey
for their time and above all, for their suggestions and
especially to those that not only indicated
suggestions in the survey but also came to talk to the
authors about new approaches in our work. Thank
you all.
This work is part of the CALIPO project (TIC
2003-07804-C05-03) and the CALIPSO network
(TIN2005-24055-E) supported by the Spanish
Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia and by the
DIMENSIONS project (PBC-05-012-1) supported
by FEDER and Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-
La Mancha.
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