BROWSING THE TAXONOMY

When the tool is executed the taxonomy appears in a window at the left hand side of the screen (this may take a few minutes). The taxonomy window may be expanded and reduced.

Icons in the taxonomy of categories and domains:

• Any of the domains in the category Project Portfolio Management Software has a quality model validated.

• The category groups five domains.  

 

• The domain of Mail Server Tools has one or more versions of its quality model  validated.

• There exists one product "Eudora 6.2" in the domain, that has one or more evaluation.   

 

 

• The category of Mail Server Tools has one or more versions of its quality model  validated.

• There exists a new validated version of the quality model of the domain, and the product "Cyrus 1.0" does not have an evaluation against that quality model. 

 

1. EXPERT MODE

2. BASIC MODE

 

 

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1. EXPERT MODE

In the expert mode, we assume that the user has enough known about the taxonomy to know how to arrive to an specific domain. Thus, clinking in the categories and domains the taxonomy may be expanded and clossed.

 

  2. BASIC MODE

The other mode for browsing the taxonomy is the basic mode, that is for users that do not know the organization of the taxonomy, and consists on using a taxonomy naviagator that asks questions and proposes answers that facilitate the navigation through the categories.

In the following screen captures (take into account that we have changed the colours of the interface, and that they are different than in other places of the manual) we will see how an non-expert user browses the taxonomy going from the "Collaboration Software" category" until the "Mail Server Tools" domain, that is the one that I am going to use in the next examples.

When we press the right button of the mouse on the Collaboration Software category, we find just one option that is to start the taxonomy navigator.

The taxonomy navigator offers us two questions:

• "Is the software useful in any team work?"

• "Is the software specific for the collaboration of people of an specific department?"

We choose the second one, since we know that a mail server is not specific for the work of a department, but it is general for the work of all the organization. And the answer is No. As you can see, the navigator offers information about the question and the answers. Descriptions and in the case of each answer examples that document better the meaning of the answer. To navigate we press the "Navigate to Scope" button.

Thus, we move forward to the "General Purpose Collaboration Software" category.

In this case the navigator, just offers us a question that is:

"What type of collaboration is necessary among people?"

Of the two possible answers we choose that the type of collaboration is "communication" of people that needs to interact for doing their work.

And we navigate to the "Internal Communication Software" category. The question of the navigator is what type of communication do we need. The only answer offered is "By mail". We take this answer since it is convenient for us.

And, finally, we arrive to the desired domain that is the one of "Mail Server Tools".