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2011 18th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
Useful, But Usable? Factors Affecting the Usability of APIs
Limerick, Ireland
October 17-October 20
ISBN: 978-0-7695-4582-0
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| Minhaz F. Zibran, Farjana Z. Eishita, Chanchal K. Roy, "Useful, But Usable? Factors Affecting the Usability of APIs," Reverse Engineering, Working Conference on, pp. 151-155, 2011 18th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, 2011. | |||
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| @article{ 10.1109/WCRE.2011.26, author = {Minhaz F. Zibran and Farjana Z. Eishita and Chanchal K. Roy}, title = {Useful, But Usable? Factors Affecting the Usability of APIs}, journal ={Reverse Engineering, Working Conference on}, volume = {0}, year = {2011}, issn = {1095-1350}, pages = {151-155}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/WCRE.2011.26}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, } | |||
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| TY - CONF JO - Reverse Engineering, Working Conference on TI - Useful, But Usable? Factors Affecting the Usability of APIs SN - 1095-1350 SP151 EP155 A1 - Minhaz F. Zibran, A1 - Farjana Z. Eishita, A1 - Chanchal K. Roy, PY - 2011 KW - Application Programming Interface KW - API KW - Usability VL - 0 JA - Reverse Engineering, Working Conference on ER - | |||
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/WCRE.2011.26
Software development today has been largely dependent on the use of API libraries, frameworks, and reusable components. However, the API usability issues often increase the development cost (e.g., time, effort) and lower code quality. In this regard, we study 1,513 bug-posts across five different bug repositories, using both qualitative and quantitative analysis. We identify the API usability issues that are reflected in the bug-posts from the API users, and distinguish relative significance of the usability factors. Moreover, from the lessons learned by manual investigation of the bug-posts, we provide further insight into the most frequent API usability issues.
Index Terms:
Application Programming Interface, API, Usability
Citation:
Minhaz F. Zibran, Farjana Z. Eishita, Chanchal K. Roy, "Useful, But Usable? Factors Affecting the Usability of APIs," wcre, pp.151-155, 2011 18th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, 2011
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