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2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
API peer reviews: a method for evaluating usability of application programming interfaces
API usability tests in the lab are time and resource intensive, thus allowing a relatively small percentage of the API namespace to be evaluated. We describe a group-based usabili...
Umer Farooq, Dieter Zirkler
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
The concept maps method as a tool to evaluate the usability of APIs
Application programming interfaces (APIs) are the interfaces to existing code structures, such as widgets, frameworks, or toolkits. Therefore, they very much do have an impact on ...
Jens Gerken, Hans-Christian Jetter, Michael Zö...
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Using concept maps to evaluate the usability of APIs
Application programming interfaces (APIs) are the interfaces to existing code structures, such as widgets, frameworks, or toolkits. Therefore, they very much do have an impact on ...
Jens Gerken, Hans-Christian Jetter, Harald Reitere...
VL
2008
IEEE
138views Visual Languages» more  VL 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
A case study of API redesign for improved usability
As software grows more complex, software developers’ productivity is increasingly defined by their ability to effectively reuse code. Even APIs (application programming interfac...
Jeffrey Stylos, Benjamin Graf, Daniela K. Busse, C...
VL
2008
IEEE
171views Visual Languages» more  VL 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Usability challenges for enterprise service-oriented architecture APIs
An important part of many programming tasks is the use of libraries and other forms of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Programming via web services using a Service-Orie...
Jack Beaton, Sae Young Jeong, Yingyu Xie, Jeffrey ...