Testing Strategies for Evaluation of User Interfaces in SOA-based Systems

Abstract

This paper presents a research that was conducted to determine the best techniques and testing strategies for user interface evaluation of SOA-based systems. Although we can find many articles on, for example, the design of web services, few guidelines exist on user interfaces and their usability for SOA-based systems. To achieve our goal we have performed various tests to determine which evaluation techniques are most suitable for such systems. The tests were conducted on a system which was created at our university – Platel. As a result we came up with a set of most effective techniques for user interface evaluation, and some guidelines for testing strategies, for SOA-based systems.