163258 20251024172258.0 doi 10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106692 sideral 145701 ART-2025-145701 eng Herrera-Murillo, Dagoberto José Universidad de Zaragoza A framework for the acceptance testing of geospatial search engines 2025 Geospatial search engines are an essential component of spatial data infrastructures and enable a broad spectrum of environmental applications. The back-end implementation of these search engines has evolved from traditional text-based information retrieval systems into more specialised search engines. However, to assess the actual improvement brought by this evolution, thorough testing is needed. The aim of this work is to propose a framework for the acceptance testing of geospatial search engines that assesses their functionality, effectiveness, and user-friendliness. For each quality attribute, the framework proposes different testing design techniques and guidelines for their practical implementation. To demonstrate its feasibility, it has been applied to the evaluation of a geospatial semantic search engine of the Spanish National Geographic Institute. The evaluated search engine showed a sufficient level of functionality and effectiveness. However, the usability results were barely satisfactory due to perceived problems associated with complexity, inconsistency, and low learnability. Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/T59-23R info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/955569/EU/Towards a sustainable Open Data ECOsystem/ODECO This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No H2020 955569-ODECO info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.es info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Nogueras-Iso, Javier Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-1279-0367 Abad-Power, Paloma Latre, Miguel Á. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-6682-8383 Lopez-Pellicer, Francisco J. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-6491-7430 5007 570 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Informát.Ingenie.Sistms. Área Lenguajes y Sistemas Inf. 194 (2025), 106692 [15 pp.] Environ. model. softw. ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE 1364-8152 3506573 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/163258/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 2685397 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/163258/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:163258 articulos driver 2025-10-24-16:55:55 ARTICLE