Applied multivariate statistics for the social sciences
Applied multivariate statistics for the social sciences
Experimentation in software engineering: an introduction
Experimentation in software engineering: an introduction
A case study of open source software development: the Apache server
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Software engineering
Enter the usability engineer: integrating HCI and software engineering
Proceedings of the 5th annual SIGCSE/SIGCUE ITiCSEconference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
A framework analysis of the open source software development paradigm
ICIS '00 Proceedings of the twenty first international conference on Information systems
Two case studies of open source software development: Apache and Mozilla
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Ethical Issues in Empirical Studies of Software Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Coordinating Open-Source Software Development
WETICE '99 Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Enabling Technologies on Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
Toward an understanding of the motivation Open Source Software developers
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering
Scratching someone else's itch: (why open source can't do usability)
interactions - Making scents: aromatic output for HCI
Case studies for teaching usability engineering
Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Defect Handling in Medium and Large Open Source Projects
IEEE Software
Usability engineering methods for software developers
Communications of the ACM - Interaction design and children
Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering
Exploratory inspection: a learning model for improving open source software usability
CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Creating a realistic context for team projects in HCI
Proceedings of the 11th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Achieving Quality in Open Source Software
IEEE Software
Assuring Quality and Usability in Open Soruce Software Development
FLOSS '07 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Emerging Trends in FLOSS Research and Development
SITIS '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Signal Image Technology and Internet Based Systems
USAB '09 Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering of the Austrian Computer Society on HCI and Usability for e-Inclusion
Current State of Agile User-Centered Design: A Survey
USAB '09 Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering of the Austrian Computer Society on HCI and Usability for e-Inclusion
Major HCI challenges for open source software adoption and development
OCSC'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Online communities and social computing
The transformation of open source software
MIS Quarterly
ICCHP'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs
An open source usability maturity model (OS-UMM)
Computers in Human Behavior
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User satisfaction has always been important for software success whether it is Open Source Software (OSS) or closed proprietary software. Even though we do not presume that OSS always has poor usability, as there are examples of good usable open source software, it would still be agreed that OSS usability has room for further improvement. This paper presents an empirical investigation to study the impact of some key factors on OSS usability from developers' points of view. This is one of the series of four studies that we are conducting regarding improvement of OSS usability from OSS developers, users, contributors, and industry perspectives. The research model of this empirical investigation studies and establishes the relationship between the key usability factors from developers' perspective and OSS usability. A data set of 106 OSS developers from 18 open source projects of varied size has been used to study the research model. The results of this study provide empirical evidence that the studied key factors play a significant role in improving OSS usability.