One of main task in information system development is to project good graphical user interface. It is used many different methods, tools and princess for automatic user interface generation. ODRES (output driven requirements engineering) method witch is developed in the department of information system has an ability to generate graphical user interface from its user developed specifications. These specifications are stored in specification storage – database and they are strictly defined. The tool used to generate graphical user interface from selected ODRES storage reads those specifications and transforms them into graphical elements. An engineer can change those elements. At the end of generation user interface prototype is saved in the same specifications storage.

Tikslas: ištirti žiniatinklių vartotojo sąsajos naudojimosi patogumą. Tyrimo objektas: žiniatinklių grafinės vartotojo sąsajos. Problema: šiandien internetinės svetainės yra labai populiarios, jas kuria visi. Dažniausiai kūrėjai neatsižvelgia į grafinės vartotojo sąsajos kūrimo reikalavimus, ir pateiktos internetinės svetainės būna perkrautos, netvarkingos. Todėl šiuo tyrimu siekiama atskleisti žiniatinklių vartotojo sąsajos problemas ir pateikti rekomendacijų internetinių svetainių kūrėjams. Tyrimo metodologija: žiniatinklių tyrimui buvo išskirti trys pagrindiniai kriterijai: atliktų žingsnių skaičius, atvertų puslapių skaičius, sugaištas laikas. O klaidų palyginimui buvo stebima judėjimo trajektorija. Naudotos priemonės: Selenium-ide-1.0.6 – fiksuoja visus atliekamus veiksmus, taip pat atkuria tą pačią veiksmų seką. Mozilla Firefox 3.0.15 – žiniatinklio naršyklė. Microsoft Office Excel 2003 – tyrime gautų duomenų suvedimui, lentelių ir grafikų sudarymui. Microsoft Office Word 2003 – ataskaitos paruošimui. Tyrimo apimtis: žiniatinklių vartotojo sąsajų tyrimui buvo parinktos 5 žiniatinklių grupės (kurios buvo panašios savo turiniu). Viso buvo tiriama 18 internetinių svetainių. Sugalvotos 5 užduotys. Tyrimo rezultatų apdorojimo ir pateikimo metodai: gauti tyrimo duomenys buvo susisteminti ir pateikiami stulpelinėse diagramose su detaliais aprašymais. Diagramos: užduotyje atliktų žingsnių skaičius, užduotyje atvertų puslapių skaičius, užduoties įvykdymo laikas, užduoties... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The goal of the final bachelor work – to research the convenience of the Web interface usage. The topicality of the subject, problems, goals and objectives are preceded. The interface usage, design technologies and requirements are analysed in the final work. The conception, classification and the system analysis are approved. The graphic usage interface, design, requirements, characteristic and technologies are enlarged. The research of web interface usage, environment, respondents, technologies, criterions, the results are approved in the work. Three main criterions were distinguished to fulfil the research: the number of performed steps, the number of opened pages, the delayed time. The criterions are necessary to compare webs . The trajectory of move is observed in order to accent the errors. Research results were systematised and presented in bar charts with detailed descriptions (comparison, error accent). The result of the research: not every Internet site is oriented towards the user. Oftentimes they are busy, non-qualitative, it is hard to find necessary information for users.

Pagrindinis darbo tikslas - realizuoti programinę įrangą, gebančią automatiškai testuoti vartotojo sąsają ir testinius atvejus generuojančią iš duotų UML modelių. Kuriama programinė įranga turėtų būti realizuota naudojant Java technologiją. Taigi šio darbo tyrimo sritis apims vartotojo sąsajos testavimo automatizavimo būdų analizę. UML modeliai tapo ypač populiaria priemone modeliuojant programinės įrangos architektūrą. UML modeliai šiais laikais naudojami ne tik įprastoms klasių diagramoms, veiklos diagramoms, sekų diagramoms modeliuoti ir pan., bet tampa vis populiaresnia priemone ir yra taikomi daugelio kitų projektavimo uždavinių sprendimui. Vartotojo sąsajos atvaizdavimas UML diagramomis vis dar nėra populiarus būdas, nors literatūroje vis dažniau sutinkame siūlymų naudoti šias technologijas. Taigi literatūroje atsirandantys straipsniai, vykdomos konferencijos ir panašaus pobūdžio įvykiai byloja, kad ateityje ši technologija neaplenks ir vartojo sąsajos modeliavimo proceso. Rinkoje jaučiamas vartotojo sąsajos automatinio testavimo sistemos, kuri gebėtų testinius atvejus generuoti iš UML modelių ir automatiškai vykdyti testavimą, trūkumas. Tokia sistema galėtų būti naudojama efektyvesniam testavimui atlikti. Tokia sistema gebėtų testuoti vartotojo sąsają greičiau ir tiksliau. Greitis pasiekiamas tuo, kad automatinio testavimo procese nedalyvauja žmogus, o visą testavimą atlieka įrenginio procesorius. Testuojant sistemą skirtingose platformose testavimą galima atlikti... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / In many cases, testing is an essential, but time and resource consuming activity in the software development process. In the case of model-based development, test construction and test execution can be partially automated. As the application size is constantly growing, the need for automated testing frameworks comes into place, particularly frameworks for automated testing of user interaction and graphical user interface. This document describes an implementation of the GUI test generator framework based on UML models where specific UML activity diagrams are used for test case generation. It is not a usual case to use UML activity diagrams for UI modeling. However the existing stereotypes of activity diagram elements are not suitable for UI modeling. With usual activity diagram it is complicated to define buttons, containers, pages and other UI elements in the diagram and find differences between them. Even more complicated is to model the navigation of the testing application. Using this approach the UI can be defined in a set of UI elements along with a set of UI navigation elements. This is an optimal and suitable approach in most cases. This document describes an implementation of the automated GUI tests runner framework as well. This framework is able to run the given application in test mode using the previously generated test cases. The framework collects all the information about each test case results and provides it to the tester. Future improvements: Find the... [to full text]

A number of software that supports multiple interactions such as synergistic use of speech and gesture is increasing. With power and versatility of multimodal interfaces also comes and new issues like increased complexity of software design. These issues should be considered in early design and testing stages of software development process. In this work we are researching a complex use of users multiple interactions with software. We will represent a method for the specification of multimodal user interfaces offered by other authors. This method is based on CARE properties. The CARE properties provide a formal framework for reasoning design of multimodal systems. Multimodal systems are using fusion mechanisms to combine different modalities. Later in this work we will take a closer look at testing process of multimodal applications. A new approach for testing modalities fusion mechanism in multimodal applications is offered. This approach will be experimentally demonstrated, evaluated and compared to alternative method.

Norint pilnai ištirti programos, skirtos tarptautinei rinkai, vartojamumą, reikia išbandyti ją su skirtingų kultūrų atstovais. Kadangi dažniausiai nėra galimybių tiesiogiai bendrauti su vartotojais iš viso pasaulio, reikalingas karkasas, nuotoliniam vartotojų veiksmų registravimui. Kuriamas karkasas ne tik registruos vartotojo veiksmus, bet ir leis juos analizuoti. Tokiu būdu, galima aptikti tam tikroje pasaulio vietoje būdingų vartotojo sasajos trūkumų, juos pataisyti, ir ištirti naujos versijos efektyvumą. / If you want to do usability research for program, which is being used in whole world, you need to try it with persons from different cultures. Most of the times there is no way, that you can communicate with users all over the world, so you need framework, that whould register user actions through distance. This new framework, that is being created, will also let you to do analysis of registered actions, so you can detect usability problems, which reveals only in specific place of the world. You can also fix that defect and do the research again, to find out if that problem is gone.

Šio darbo tikslas yra sukurti metodą, kuris teiktų galimybę kuo didesnę vartotojo sąsajos dalį apibrėžti deklaratyviai (komponentų kūrimas, įvykių klausytojų registravimas, komponentų tarpusavio sąryšių apibrėžimas ir vizualus komponentų išdėstymas languose). Darbe išanalizuotos įvairios komponentinės architektūros bei išraiškingą vartotojo sąsajos apibrėžimą įgalinantys sprendimai. Apibrėžta ir įgyvendinta architektūra leidžianti kurti deklaratyviai apibrėžiamus vartotojo sąsajos komponentus, kurie deklaruoja savo elgesį ir gali bendrauti tarpusavyje pranešimų pagalba. Rezultate buvo sukurta sistema, kuri leidžia kurti taikomąsias programas su Java Swing vartotojo sąsaja, naudojantis beveik vien tik deklaratyviais taikomosios programos dalių apibrėžimais. Sukurtos sistemos konfigūracijos galimybės leidžia sumažinti komponentų manipuliacijai skirto Java kodo poreikį. / A part of a user interface can be created using declarative means. The main goal of this paper is to maximize that portion. To do that, said means would be used to create components, register event listeners, describe relationships between components and layout them in windows. Various component-based architectures and existing solutions for declarative user interface definition were analyzed. As a result, an architecture was defined which allows user interface components to be created using a declarative approach. These components define their behavior and use messages to communicate with each other. The outcome was a system, which can create Java Swing applications using mostly declarative definitions of various parts of said applications. This system provides various configuration options that reduce the need of writing Java code for component manipulation.

A design of a Smart Home system which is expected to help people with physical and speech impairments to control their living environment is given there. It was done during Eureka project E!2707 (PACS). Hardware and software analysis, algorithms and methods, usability test of developed system user interface are given there. A review of similar systems designed for disabled was done. Analysis of user requirements, detailed analysis and implementation ways of user interface are given there. The most popular building automation standards were analyzed and the most suitable one – Konnex association standard KNX was selected. Three different system block diagrams, software algorithm and its implementation methods were given and analyzed. A model of the user interface was created. An investigation was made. The goal of it is to evaluate the main user interface parameter – activation time which makes a better usability of the whole system.

This Master’s thesis analyze application of information technology in education process, examination using testing method and possibility of computerized testing systems in Lithuanian schools. Rapid development of information and communication technologies inevitably affect and change all spheres of the society including education. Moreover, new technologies change and enrich ordinary methods of examination. One of the most important tasks of the education system is to ascertain the level of knowledge acquired or in other words to examine pupils knowledge. So, one of most easily computerized examination forms is testing method. This method has its own shortcomings, but is rather widespread due to its convenience and easy formalization. A new general standard of computer literacy was prepared on 31st January 2002. Its aim is to ascertain the minimum skills of computer usage by pupils. This year the first school leavers well pass the test on computer literacy. The purpose of the test is to examine their knowledge of information technologies and the mastering level of minimum skills of computer usage. Questionnaire of the teachers and pupils shows that testing method is acceptable and the computer in classes is awaited. The aim of the master’s research is to analyze the efficiency of special computer programmers in developing and examining skills of computer literacy in secondary schools. The tasks of research are to analyze the ways of testing, to prepare some tests... [to full text]

The target of this project was to generate a prototype, which would model the elements of the user interface based on the information flow specification. The system is programmed using MS Visual Basic for Applications, its’ graphical environment is MS Visio 2000 and the elements of GUI for modeling are taken from MS Visio 2000 stencil WUI (wui.vss). The created module allows for easy modeling of graphical user interface elements for the data source, which is selected from the database. The processing stages of the data sources are illustrated using MS Visio 2000 documents’ windows, – one window for each stage. In the database, the elements of GUI are associated with the data source processing stages they are related to, i.e. the ones that they are present in. It means, that when working with the system, after selecting the desired data source and its processing stages one wants to model, the system generates the forms with associated GUI elements. This work was being done in the order of the scientific group of Information systems design, which analyses the design of the Information systems in the wide context of requirements engineering, process and data structures specification. This designed and realized model is going to be a part of a CASE tool meant for designing computerized information systems. Once the CASE tool is finished, it is planned to use it for educational purposes in Kaunas University of Technology in the department of Information systems. It is going to... [to full text]

This paper is an analysis of creative opportunities of graphical user interface software of computer mathematics systems. There were two computer mathematics systems chosen: Matlab 7, Maple 10 and Mathematica 5.2 for this work. In order to compare the creative opportunities of graphical user interface software in computer mathematics systems and universal programming languages, C++ Builder 6 system was chosen. In line, there were four application programs groups created in mathematics systems and in C++ Builder system. The process of creating these programs, the peculiarities of the codes and the final result were compared. To sum up, computer mathematics systems may be used for creating application programs. Classical programming tasks may be implemented in these programs. Moreover, computer mathematics systems used for creating software cannot be changed by any other program that needs classical programming constructions, analytic computations and creating of graphical user interface.