| Topic:
"Usability
Practices"
Speakers:
R Krishnan, Principal Staff Engineer; K Vidya, Senior Software
Engineer; Simi K Balakrishnan, Software Engineer, Motorola
Software Group - India
Plan to cover usability practices like Usability Inspection,
Usability feedback surveys and a usability improvement framework
using these practices.
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R Krishnan, Principal Staff Engineer, Motorola
Software Group - India
Is a principal staff engineer with Motorola Software
Group - India, where he leads the software technology function.
He is a PhD in computer science, from University of
Central Florida, USA, with many years of experience
in the industry . He has successfully introduced several software
engineering tools & practices in the organization. Krishnan
has worked on a range of software engineering areas: software
reuse, architecture, product quality, usability, software
security and testing.
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K Vidya, Senior Software Engineer,
Motorola Software Group - India
Holds a degree in Computer Science from BITS, Pilani. Has been
with Motorola for over 6 years. Currently part
of phone feature test team, has worked on various software tools
& technology and has a passion for usability. |
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Simi K Balakrishnan, Software Engineer, Motorola Software
Group - India
Software Engineer in Motorola system test team
for over 2 years. Was involved in system testing of avionics
software prior to joining Motorola for over an year. Areas of
interest include usability and software testing
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| Topic:
"Usability
Testing- Basic Principles and Methodology"
Speaker:
Mr. Srinivasan Desikan
Usability
testing attempts to characterize the “look and feel”
and usage aspects of a product, from the point of view of
users. Usability is easy to understand but difficult to define
and implement. Even though many feels that it is easy for
them to learn and understand they fail when it comes to implementation.
The technology, standards and testing methodology play a major
role in deciding the good testing strategy for usability.This
presentation highlights the basic principles and simple approach
and methodology for effective usability testing. |
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Mr.
Srinivasan Desikan is Director of Quality Assurance
at Agile Software Corporation Inc., Bangalore, and
has occupied a variety of technical and management positions
at Novell Inc., Wipro, Talisma and Siebel.
He has been part of large testing and product-development
teams, and has been in the field since 1989.
He has vast experience in the areas of test automation, test
management, test processes and in setting up test teams from
scratch. He has delivered talks on testing at international
conferences both in India and abroad. Mr. Srinivasan is a
Founder member for STeP-IN Forum that conducts
conferences on software testing. He is a author of best selling
book Software Testing : Principles and Practice. |
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| Topic:
"Usability Theory in Practice - An Optimal Synch"
Speaker : Rashna Bhargava, Usability Consultant -
MphasiS, an EDS Company |
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Rashna
Bhargava, is a Usability Consultant in MphasiS,
an EDS Company with over 8 years of
experience in the field. She has Masters of Information
Management and Systems, Monash University, Melbourne Australia
to her credit.
Rashna, at MphasiS, heads the User
Research and Testing Usability Centre of Excellence and
also manages the operations for the 125 member Usability Engineering
Team She added value to clients by involving in managing and
executing medium to large Usability Consulting and User Interface
Design and Development projects in USA, UK, Japan and India.
She extended her services to clients like Discovery
India; Deutsche Bank-UK; Reuters-UK; Citigroup-USA; Uchida
Spectrum-Japan; Citibank-USA; Pfizer-USA; JP Morgan Chase-USA;
Jet Airways-India; Capital One-USA; IBM-India; Shinsei Bank-USA
Rashna,
Before joining MphasiS, she performed various roles ranging
from Business Development Manager and Web marketer in premium
Interactive Agencies like Ogilvy & Mather Interactive
and EURO RSCG Interactive. Rashna’s Domain expertise
include- User Centered Design and User Research; User Interviews;
Interaction design; Remote Usability Testing and User Research;
Accessibility Testing and ADA compliance; and Content Management. |
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Topic:
"Usability
Metrics"
Speaker : Arunkumar Khannur, Chairman & CEO, ISQT Process
and Consulting Services Pvt. Ltd.
Usability
Metrics are formal measurements that are used to rate the level
of usability of a product. Metrics include how fast a user can
perform a task, number of errors made on a task, learning time,
and subjective ratings. This presentation talks on rules used
to measure the usability; metrics on learnability, operability,
understandability and also, other metrics used to evaluate impact
of usability. |
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About Arunkumar Khannur
Mr. Khannur is a senior consultant, trainer and author.
With 20+ years of experience in IT. He focused on
quality and testing. Mr. Khannur provides consulting and training
related services in India, China, Thailand, Singapore,
Vietnam, Argentina, and Srilanka. He managed testing
in e-com projects, development projects, maintenance projects
covering functional and non-functional tests including usability.
He contributed as a member of SIG on Testing in SPIN, Bangalore.
Mr. Khannur, as an employee, worked for companies like -
Wipro, Logica, Planetasia, and QAI. At present he
is the Chairman and CEO of ISQT Process and
Consulting Services Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore. Mr. Khannur has also
provided his consulting services to more than 45 companies.
As a trainer, he trained more than 8500 professionals
in 33 courses in seven countries. He authored 4 books and
fifth book Software Testing is ready for publication.
Mr. Khannur established test teams, process and practices
in Planetasia and Logica. He is a founding member of STeP-IN
forum. He participates frequently in International
conferences as an advisory board member, a speaker or as a
panelist.
Mr. Khannur's areas of interest in software testing include-
Software Testing Techniques; Test related processes including
TMM and TPI; Test Modeling; Test Strategy; Test Management.
He is currently busy in giving final touches to knowledge
portal on software testing, viz, www.givemedefect.com |
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