Usability

• Software is usable if its end users find it easy to use

  • usability is an extremely subjective property
  • usability includes effort required to learn, operate, prepare input, and interpret output

• Usability refers to the human-machine interface for non-embedded systems, but to the ease of configuring the system to the environment for embedded software systems

  • usability depends on the consistency of its user and operator interfaces

• Usability may be achieved through standard user interfaces

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