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ICSE
2012
IEEE-ACM
11 years 7 months ago
Temporal analysis of API usage concepts
—Software reuse through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) is an integral part of software development. The functionality offered by an API is not always accessed uniforml...
Gias Uddin, Barthélémy Dagenais, Mar...
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...
VR
2002
IEEE
131views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2002»
13 years 9 months ago
A Combined Immersive and Desktop Authoring Tool for Virtual Environments
While frameworks and application programming interfaces for virtual reality are commonplace today, designing scenarios for virtual environments still remains a tedious and time co...
Roland Holm, Erwin Stauder, Roland Wagner, Markus ...
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...
SIGSOFT
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
How a good software practice thwarts collaboration: the multiple roles of APIs in software development
The principle of information hiding has been very influential in software engineering since its inception in 1972. This principle prescribes that software modules hide implementat...
Cleidson R. B. de Souza, David F. Redmiles, Li-Te ...