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VIII.3 May/June 2001
Page: 15
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The whiteboard: Tracking usability issues


Authors:
Chauncey Wilson, Kara Coyne

Most development organizations track software bugs and their severity in a corporate database, which is shared with product development and tech support teams. We find, however, that these same organizations seldom have a standard method, if any, of tracking usability issues. Usability practitioners communicate usability problems through reports, highlight tapes, and formal briefings, but are these methods adequate for tracking usability problems through successive cycles of product development? We diverge in our specific approaches to tracking. Chauncey believes that it is essential to track usability issues in the official corporate bug database. Bugs that don't get into the bug…




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