ACM Interactions

Authors:
Mary Theofanos

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The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) subcommittee on systems and software engineering approved the Common Industry Format for Usability Test Reports as an international standard at their plenary in Helsinki, May 2005. The new standard, "ISO/IEC 25062: Software Engineering—Software Product Quality Requirements and Evaluation (SQuaRE)"—common industry format for usability test reports—will be published shortly. Information concerning the publication date will be available at www.nist.gov/iusr. What Is the Common Industry Format? The Common Industry Format (CIF) is a standard method for reporting usability test findings. The format is designed for reporting results of formal usability tests in which quantitative measurements…

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