Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Design patterns: an essential component of CS curricula
SIGCSE '98 Proceedings of the twenty-ninth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Usability Engineering
Natural programming languages and environments
Communications of the ACM - End-user development: tools that empower users to create their own software solutions
Six Learning Barriers in End-User Programming Systems
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Usability Implications of Requiring Parameters in Objects' Constructors
ICSE '07 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Software Engineering
Mapping the Space of API Design Decisions
VLHCC '07 Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
More natural end-user software engineering
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Usability evaluation for enterprise SOA APIs
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The implications of method placement on API learnability
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API usability: CHI'2009 special interest group meeting
CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Jadeite: improving API documentation using usage information
CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Improving Documentation for eSOA APIs through User Studies
IS-EUD '09 Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on End-User Development
API usability: report on special interest group at CHI
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
A Quality Model for Mashup Components
ICWE '9 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Engineering
On The Roles of APIs in the Coordination of Collaborative Software Development
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Using concept maps to evaluate the usability of APIs
CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Architecting in software ecosystems: interface translucence as an enabler for scalable collaboration
Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Software Architecture: Companion Volume
Quality-based recommendations for mashup composition
ICWE'10 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Current trends in web engineering
Empirical studies on programming language stimuli
Software Quality Control
The concept maps method as a tool to evaluate the usability of APIs
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Seuss: better class responsibilities through language-based dependency injection
TOOLS'11 Proceedings of the 49th international conference on Objects, models, components, patterns
Using structure-based recommendations to facilitate discoverability in APIs
Proceedings of the 25th European conference on Object-oriented programming
A field study of API learning obstacles
Empirical Software Engineering
Using intelligent tutors to enhance student learning of application programming interfaces
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
Generating smart wrapper libraries for arbitrary APIs
SLE'09 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Software Language Engineering
An empirical investigation on the impact of design pattern application on computer game defects
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International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Asking and answering questions about unfamiliar APIs: an exploratory study
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Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
What should developers be aware of? An empirical study on the directives of API documentation
Empirical Software Engineering
Methods towards API usability: a structural analysis of usability problem categories
HCSE'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering
Comparing the usability of grid-bag and constraint-based layouts
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Studying the Documentation of an API for Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture
Journal of Organizational and End User Computing
Design pattern alternatives: what to do when a GoF pattern fails
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The usability of software APIs is an important and infrequently researched topic. A user study comparing the usability of the factory pattern and constructors in API designs found highly significant results indicating that factories are detrimental to API usability in several varied situations. The results showed that users require significantly more time (p = 0.005) to construct an object with a factory than with a constructor while performing both context-sensitive and context-free tasks. These results suggest that the use of factories can and should be avoided in many cases where other techniques, such as constructors or class clusters, can be used instead.