Template: Usability Specification Document
By Mitch on Friday, 23 March 2012, 15:59 - Templates - Permalink
After the Risk Managment Plan template, here is the Usability Specification Document.
The Usability Specification Document is your companion during the phases where you define the graphical user interface and ergonomics of your software.
It contains two main chapters:
- One you fill before the specifications phase, when you initiate the design of the grahical user interface
- One you fill during the specifications phase, when you go deeper into details.
This document gives inputs to the risk management process, hence hazardous
situations found before specifications shall be mitigated. So it is strongly
linked to the Risk
Analysis Report.
This document is also liked to the Software Requirements
Specifications, hence ergonomic requirements are described first in this
document and described with more details in the SRS. Every requirement found in
the SRS shall be tested in the Software Tests Plan.
So every ergonomics requirement will be tested during the tests phases, which
is good.
Warning, this document is not a validation plan. Validation of your software
shall be described in the project management plan or software development
plan.
Validating the user interface of a software is a process strongly linked to other processes of software developement and risk analysis:
- Draft user interface and risk analysis are conducted before specifications, hazardous situations include those related to user interface,
- Specification of user interface is done during specifications, software requirements mitigating risks include those related to user interface,
- During conception and coding, an update software requirements, user interface requirements and risk analysis may happen,
- Verification tests include those of user interfaces and tests of requirements mitigating risks include those of requirements mitigating risks linked to user interface,
- Validation tests or reviews, done with end-users or beta testers (call them as you want) include the review of user interfaces and scenarios.
By the way, I'll continue my series of posts about inflation of medical devices in the next post.
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