Usability implications of requiring parameters in objects' constructors

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 529-538

  Stylos, Jeffrey ^a   Clarke, Steven ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

COGNITIVE DIMENSIONS FRAMEWORK; LEARNING STRATEGIES; PROGRAMMER PRODUCTIVITY;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API);

EID: 34548794779     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2007.92     Document Type: Conference Paper

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