Usability testing for user interfaces

Abstract

The paper analyses the problems of maintaining software quality, namely, usability testing as a direction of ensuring this quality, analyses publications that consider the methods of electro-oculography, electro-retinography, mouse-tracking, eye-tracking, etc. and proves that the issue of improving the quality of software products largely depends on the effectiveness of usability testing. The study is based on the analysis of traditional software testing methods and tools and the proposal of mouse-tracking and eye-tracking technologies as an alternative solution to the problem. Criteria and metrics for assessing the usability of web applications were identified, an analytical approach was used as a methodological basis, which involves a comprehensive consideration of the research object, methods of comparative analysis and classification were used to obtain data, the results were processed using standard statistical methods, and the necessity and importance of usability testing of websites was assessed.