Usability evaluation for Enterprise SOA APIs

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 29-34

  Beaton, Jack ^a   Myers, Brad A ^a   Stylos, Jeffrey ^a   Jeong, Sae Young ^a   Xie, Yingyu ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Api design; Enterprise SOA; SAP; Service Oriented Architecture; Usability; Web services

Indexed keywords

API DESIGN; ENTERPRISE SOA; SAP; SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE; USABILITY;

COBALT; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MILITARY ENGINEERING; PROCESS ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; WEB SERVICES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API);

EID: 57049166629     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1370916.1370924     Document Type: Conference Paper

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