Usability Maintainability Portability Efficiency Reliability Functionality

Related characteristics

understandability
learnability
operability
explicitness
customisability
attractivity
clarity
helpfulness
user-friendliness

Attractivity

 

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Description

Attributes of software that bear on the satisfaction of latent user desires and preferences, through services, behaviour and presentation beyond actual demand.

Indicators

1. user judgement on attractivity

The equipment level of the software product, especially the availability of additional services, behaviour and presentation, as judged by the user.

Source: QUINT

Scale: ordinal

Validity: ***

Protocol:

  1. Select a representative group of users;
  2. Show them the "accessories" applied in the software product;
  3. Let the users express the luxury as: high: they believe all desirable accessories are applied; average: they believe only a limited number of accessories are applied; low: they believe very few accessories are applied;
  4. Determine the average appreciation.