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2008
IEEE
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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...
ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Improving API documentation usability with knowledge pushing
The documentation of API functions typically conveys detailed specifications for the benefit of interested readers. In some cases, however, it also contains usage directives, such...
Uri Dekel, James D. Herbsleb
BCSHCI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Expert habits vs. UI improvements: re-design of a room booking system
This paper presents the results of a case study examining prototyping as a method in re-designing a user interface (UI). In the case presented, a web-based room booking was re-des...
Per A. Jonasson, Morten Fjeld, Aiko Fallas Yamashi...
OSS
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Introducing Usability Practices to OSS: The Insiders' Experience
This paper presents a case study of introducing usability practices to a small open source project called Carrot2 . We describe our experiences from a point of view of an active Ca...
Stanislaw Osinski, Dawid Weiss
CODES
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Don't forget memories: a case study redesigning a pattern counting ASIC circuit for FPGAs
Modern embedded compute platforms increasingly contain both microprocessors and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The FPGAs may implement accelerators or other circuits to s...
David Sheldon, Frank Vahid