Progress Report On Android Privacy Tools - 832 Words

Progress Report on Android Privacy Tools Introduction With respect to security and usability, the report included criteria that can be considered relevant from the perspective of software engineering methodologies and project management side. Some of them were selected based on their importance held as non-functional requirements. One of the actual methods of measuring the usability degree of the analyzed tools involves the HCI factor (Human-Computer Interaction). The deployability refers to how reliable and easy to be designed is the software from development phase until it arrives into actual production. XPrivacy Security – it allows the restrictions to certain categories of applications and data (e.g. contacts, location). The list†¦show more content†¦Storage: to be able to export XPrivacy s settings to the SD card Wakelock: to keep the processor running during batch operations. Usability – regarded as a measure of easiness in use of the tool from different perspectives. At the same time, it measures how suitable is the privacy tool for its end users. How easy is to manipulate the restrictions? In order to apply the restrictions it is needed applications to be restarted. The entire process is easy and doesn’t require advanced using skills from users’ end. Thus from this point of view it can be stated the usability is high. The process can be summarized as below: at first find the application to restrict in the main application list; then tap on the application icon; in the end the user must tap the first check box of any category you want to restrict. Accessibility – it has a high degree as an overall; for instance, the global settings and application specific settings can be accessed both from the application list s menu and from the menu of the application s Readability – the detailed view – therefore XPrivacy provides users with possibility of ease in read. Users’ intervention is decreased to minimum – the application of restriction is done in automated manner. Compatibility incompatibility – on one hand, it works with Android