The DB2 replication certification guide

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New Jersey : Prentice-Hall, 1999

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9780130824240

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IBM Database 2

Electronic data processing personnel -- Certification

Snow, Dwaine

Database management -- Certification

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Harbus, Robert

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Jonathan Cook and Calene Janacek are software professionals at IBM's International Technical Support Organization, Austin, TX.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Section I Toward More Usable Software	p. 1
1 Software for Use: Usage, Usability, and User Interfaces	p. 3
Upgrading Usability	p. 3
Approaching Usability	p. 12
Changing Contexts	p. 18
2 Built-in Usability: A Usage-Centered Design Approach	p. 21
Interfacing with Users	p. 21
Elements of a Usage-Centered Approach	p. 23
Driving Models	p. 25
Coordinated Activity	p. 33
3 In Principle: Rules and Principles of Usage-Centered Design	p. 41
Design as Dialogue	p. 41
Rules and Principles	p. 45
Usability Rules	p. 46
User Interface Design Principles	p. 51
Other Rules	p. 63
Details, Details, Details	p. 65
Section II Essential Models for Usability	p. 67
4 Users and Related Species: Understanding Users and User Roles	p. 69
Of Use and Users	p. 69
Real Users and Others	p. 70
User Role Models	p. 78
User Role Maps	p. 84
User Roles in Action	p. 86
Structured Role Models	p. 89
5 Working Structures: Task Modeling with Essential Use Cases	p. 97
Work, Work, Work	p. 97
Task Modeling	p. 99
The Use Case Map	p. 109
Building Essential Use Case Models	p. 115
Application	p. 119
6 Interface Architecture: Interface Contents and Navigation	p. 125
Workplaces	p. 125
Interface Contents	p. 127
The Context Navigation Map	p. 135
Application	p. 141
Section III Creating the Visual Design	p. 147
7 Designing the Dialogue: Layout and Communication	p. 149
From Abstraction to Expression	p. 149
Communication Channels	p. 150
Screen Real Estate	p. 158
8 Practical Widgetry: Choosing and Designing Visual Components	p. 165
Buy or Build	p. 165
Iconic Communication	p. 166
Menus	p. 170
Selecting Selection Widgets	p. 179
9 Innovative Interfaces: Creative Interface Engineering and Custom Components	p. 185
Creative Engineering	p. 185
The Process of Innovation	p. 189
Instructive Interfaces	p. 194
Applied Innovation	p. 205
Section IV Completing the Design	p. 209
10 Expressing Solutions: Implementation Modeling and Prototypes	p. 211
Fun Stuff	p. 211
Prototypes and Prototyping	p. 212
Mapping the Models	p. 218
Implementation Modeling Illustrated	p. 225
11 Help Me If You Can: Designing Help and Helpful Messages	p. 231
Even Experts Need a Lift	p. 231
Use Cases for Help	p. 232
Access and Presentation Techniques	p. 237
Special Techniques and Modalities	p. 243
Helpful Writing	p. 248
Helpful Messages	p. 253
12 Once a Beginner: Supporting Evolving Usage Patterns	p. 265
Beyond Beginners	p. 265
Skiing the Interface	p. 267
Progressive Usage	p. 268
Supportive Interfaces	p. 272
Designing for Progressive Usage	p. 280
Progressive Usage Applied	p. 293
13 In Place: Fitting the Operational Context	p. 297
Unsound Context	p. 297
Operational Modeling	p. 298
Environmental Adaptation	p. 299
Binding Context	p. 300
Environment Profile	p. 308
Putting Context in Place	p. 313
14 Same Game, Different Fields: Special Applications, Special Issues	p. 317
Theme and Variation, Again	p. 317
Web Design for Use	p. 317
Web Wisdom Applied	p. 330
Embedded Systems Applications	p. 338
Other Special Interfaces	p. 354
15 Usage-Centered Design Applied: The TeleGuida Case	p. 357
Scaling Up	p. 357
Telephone Tag	p. 358
Gathering Requirements	p. 359
TeleGuida Users and Uses	p. 366
Toward a TeleGuida Prototype	p. 378
Section V Assessment and Improvement	p. 389
16 Better Next Time: Improvement by Inspection and Review	p. 391
Assessing Usability	p. 391
Inspection Methods	p. 399
Collaborative Usability Inspections	p. 401
Focused Inspections	p. 413
17 By the Numbers: Measuring Usability in Practice	p. 417
Comparison Shopping	p. 417
Measured Quality	p. 418
User Interface Design Metrics	p. 423
Essential Usability Metrics Suite	p. 426
Metrics in Practice	p. 441
18 Test Scores: Laboratory and Field Testing of Usability	p. 443
History Testing	p. 443
Testing, One, Two	p. 444
Test Protocol	p. 450
Testing Tactics	p. 456
Why Test, Why Not	p. 460
Section VI Organizing and Managing the Process	p. 463
19 Code and You're Done: Implementing Interfaces	p. 465
Objects and Interfaces	p. 465
Accelerated Development	p. 472
Visual Development of Visual Designs	p. 475
20 Using Your Users: Users in the Development Process	p. 481
Use or Abuse of Users	p. 481
Requirements Dialogue, Requirements Dance	p. 485
Going to the Source	p. 489
Using Users	p. 494
Joint Essential Modeling	p. 499
21 Getting Organized: Usability in the Larger Context	p. 511
Organizational Units	p. 511
Standards and Style Guides	p. 513
Competing Constituencies	p. 517
Experts and Expertise	p. 522
Cultural Fit	p. 524
Appendix A Suggested Readings	p. 533
Appendix B Eleven Ways to Make Software More Usable: General Principles of Software Usability	p. 535
Appendix C Glossary	p. 537
Appendix D Forms for Usage-Centered Design	p. 545
Appendix E Subjective Usability Scales for Software (SUSS)	p. 549
References	p. 551
Index	p. 561

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