What is usability, and how can you test for it?

This is the writeup for the presentation: What is usability, and how can you test for it? given at Southampton University March 2009. These views are entirely my own and do not represent those of the IBM corporation.
Products are developed to be used by users.  However, if products are not designed with usability in mind, then [...]

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Enqueue/Dequeue and the Test Client

There is a hiccup in the WebSphere Message Broker documentation in the topics that talk about putting and getting test messages from within the WebSphere Message Broker toolkit. The topics that talk about putting and getting test messages in the debugging section haven’t been properly updated for changes in v6.1. The enqueue and dequeue functions are still [...]

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ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7/WG2 – Plenary in Berlin

I’ve recently got back from the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7 Plenary meeting in Berlin. In case you don’t understand the acronym, this is a meeting of the Software and systems engineering sub-committee of the International Standards Organisation. SC7 and it’s working groups meet twice a year, with the Plenary held in May, and working group meetings [...]

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