Evaluating software (rubic) is an important step for building software before it goes to markets or the customers. This step helps the stakeholders to check through the benefits and the impacts of the software to the customers. By evaluating the software, the producers and the stakeholders can realize its values base on several aspects. These include the costs, designs, security, morale and availabilty for the users. In addition, stakeholders and customers can examine and determine the needs of sofware by using ten stages of cycle of "evaluation of software and its effects on learning". These stages include needs analysis, prototype production, formative evaluation, make chage, pre-test, implement, post-test, summative evaluation, and long term impact. On these stages, all stake holders are involved. These people include trainers, educators, researchers, managersm writers, artists, subject experts, programmers, target audience, designers, learners, facilitator-as-researcher, governing body and finance department. These people have their own responsibility for examining on their own stages. And different tools are used while softwarte is being evaluated.
Apart form ten stages mentioned above, there are also four sub-aspects that the stakeholders and the consumers take into account. These coverinstructional, curriculum, cosmetics, and technical aspects. By looking through these aspects, it can raise the minor aspects that can interest and impress the users.
In brief, software evaluating helps the software producers and stakeholders realize the utility and impacts of software that may occur in the future. This helps improveimprove the software in the approriate levels. |
