Over the last decade there has been a growing
interest in the integration of agile software development process
(ASDP) and user-centred design (UCD). However, there are no
papers that study which usability techniques related to
requirements engineering are being adopted in the ASDP, and
there are no formalized proposals for their adoption. Objective:
Identify which techniques related to requirements engineering
activities are being adopted in the ASDP and determine how they
are being adopted. Method: We have conducted a systematic
mapping study (SMS) to retrieve the literature reporting the
application of usability techniques in the ASDP. We analysed
these techniques using a catalogue of techniques compiled by
software engineering researchers. We then determined the
manner in which the techniques that are being used in the ASDP
were adopted. Results: The agile community is very much
interested in adopting usability techniques. The most used
techniques are Personas, contextual inquiry and prototyping.
Conclusions: This research offers an overview of the adoption of
usability techniques related to requirements engineering in
ASDPs and reports how they are being adopted. We found that
some of the techniques are being adapted for adoption.This research was funded by the Spanish Ministry of
Education, Culture and Sports FLEXOR and “Realizando
Experimentos en la Industria del Software: Comprensión del
Paso de Laboratorio a la Realidad” projects (TIN2014-52129-R
and TIN2014-60490-P, respectively) and the eMadrid-CM
“Investigación y Desarrollo de Tecnologías Educativas en la
Comunidad de Madrid” project (S2013/ICE-2715
