Designing useful tools for developers

  • Authors:
  • Thomas D. LaToza;Brad A. Myers

  • Affiliations:
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Evaluation and usability of programming languages and tools
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Designing useful tools for developers requires identifying and understanding an important problem developers face and designing a solution that addresses this problem. This paper describes a design process that uses data to understand problems, design solutions, and evaluate solutions' usefulness.