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Recent work in usability evaluation has focused on automatically capturing and analysing user interface events. However, automated techniques typically require modification of the underlying software, preventing non-programmers from using these techniques. In addition, capturing events requires each event source to be modified and since these sources may be spread throughout the system, maintaining the event capture functionality can become a very arduous task. Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is a programming paradigm that separates the concerns or behaviours of a system into discrete aspects, allowing all event capture to be contained within a single aspect. Consequently, the use of AOP for usability evaluation is currently an area of research interest, but there is a lack of a general framework. This paper describes the development of an AOP-based usability evaluation framework that can be dynamically configured to capture specific events in an application.
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Shekh, S., Tyerman, S. (2010). An Aspect-Oriented Framework for Event Capture and Usability Evaluation. In: Maciaszek, L.A., González-Pérez, C., Jablonski, S. (eds) Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering. ENASE ENASE 2009 2008. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 69. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14819-4_8
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