Building more usable APIs

IEEE Software

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 78-86

  McLellan, Samuel G ^a,c,d   Roesler, Alvin W ^a,d   Tempest, Joseph T ^a,e   Spinuzzi, Clay I ^a,b,f  

^a SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); SYSTEM PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE USABILITY METHODS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0032072213     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/52.676963     Document Type: Article

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