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Agile usability engineering is a method created from a combination of agile software development and usability engineering practices.〔Memmel, T (2006). Agile Usability Engineering. Retrieved 4 November 2013 from http://www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/agile_usability_engineering.html〕 Agile usability engineering attempts to apply the principles of rapid and iterative development to the field of user interface design. Early implementations of usability engineering in user-centered design came into professional practice during the mid–late 1980s. Early implementations of agile software development evolved in the mid-1990s. It has only been within the past few years that the human-computer interaction community have seen widespread acceptance of agile usability engineering.〔 ==History== When methods such as extreme programming and test driven development were introduced by Kent Beck, usability engineering had to become light-weight in order to work with agile environments. Individuals like Kent Beck have helped to shape the methodology of agile usability engineering by working on projects such as the Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation System. Such time-driven projects have helped individuals experience and understand the best methodologies to practice while working in an agile environment. An early example of usability engineering in an agile software development environment can be found in the work of Larry Constantine and Lucy Lockwood who designed a browser-resident classroom information management system. During this process, the design team worked directly with an education team, which served as both subject-matter experts and representative end users to develop initial user role models and an inventory of task cases. This process mimics participatory design. With this material, mock-ups were iteratively designed to achieve the desired goal of “the stringent design objective of enabling immediate, productive use of the system based on a single-page tutorial.”〔Constantine, L. L., Lockwood, L. A. D. (2002). Usage-centered engineering for web applications. IEEE Software, 19(2), 42-50. doi:10.1109/52.991331〕 The following table displays the differences and similarities of light-weight processes compared to heavy-weight processes as suggested by Thomas Memmel.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Agile usability engineering」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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