Sometimes you need to see through walls - A field study of application programming interfaces

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 63-71

  De Souza, Cleidson R B ^a,b   Redmiles, David ^b   Cheng, Li Te ^c   Millen, David ^c   Patterson, John ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^b Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Application programming interfaces; Collaborative software development; Interfaces; Qualitative studies

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; GROUPWARE; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); WEB BROWSERS;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; EXPERTISE BROWSER SYSTEMS; INTERFACES; QUALITATIVE STUDIES;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 21644444880     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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