ISO/IEC INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 25063 Firstedition 2014-03-15 Systems and software engineering Systems and software product Quality Requirements and Evaluation (SQuaRE) Common Industry Format (CIF) for usability: Context of use description Ingénierie des systemes et du logiciel - Exigences de qualité et évaluation des systemes et du logiciel (SQuaRE) - Format industriel commun (CIF) pour I'utilisabilité: Description du contexte d'utilisation Reference number IS0/IEC 25063:2014(E) F Copyright International Organization for Standardization @IS0/IEC2014 t license from IHS Not for Resale IS0/IEC 25063:2014(E) COPYRIGHTPROTECTEDDOCUMENT @IS0/IEC2014 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized otherwise in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, or posting on the internet or an intranet, without prior written permission. Permission can be requested from either ISO at the address below or ISO's member body in the country of the requester. ISOcopyrightoffice Case postale 56:CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 0111 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail [email protected] Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland @ IS0/IEC 2014 -All rights reserved No reproductic networking permitted without license from IHS Not for Resale IS0/IEC25063:2014(E) Contents Page Foreword ..iv Introduction. ..V 1 Scope. ..1 2 Conformance ..1 3 Terms and definitions ..1 4 Purposes and types of context of use descriptions ..4 4.1 General .4 4.2 Initial outline of the contextof use .6 4.3 Detailed context of use descriptions .6 4.4 Context of use for an evaluation .7 4.5 Context of use information included in a product description 7 Elements of a context of use description 5 5.1 General ..8 5.2 Subjectofthecontextofusedescription 9 5.3 Userpopulation. .10 5.4 Goals and responsibilities of the user group and the organization .13 5.5 Tasks of the users .14 5.6 Environment(s) of the user. .16 5.7 Problems. ..18 Annex A (informative) Initial outline of the context of use .20 Annex B (informative) Users of the context of use ..21 Annex C (informative) Example of a context of use checklist ..23 Bibliography .32 iii se with ISt thout license from IHS Not for Resale