1. Chapter 5 – Software Tools

2. 5.1 Introduction Tools valuable for –Specification –Interface Building –Evaluation

3. 5.2 Specification Natural language not sufficient in many cases Menu Trees Transition Diagrams User Action Notation

4. 5.3 Interface Building Tools May be described with different terminology Tools provide visual editing to allow quickly changing interface Tools provide interface independence Prototype can act as a specification Desirable if tool supports cross platform development

5. Design Only Tools May use simple tools Possibly some design specific tools

6. Multimedia construction tools Early – Hypercard Lately – WWW oriented

7. Visual Programming Tools Visual Basic Others

8. Development Tools Toolkits work with general purpose languages Java Javascript

9. Factors in Choosing Interface Building Tools Widgets Supported Interface Features Software Architecture Management Issues

10. 5.4 Evaluation Tools Tools have been created Some things that could be measured … –Scale –Complexity –Consistency –Correctness –Use metrics –Other heuristics

11. End Chapter 5