API Usability is the measure of how effectively, efficiently, and satisfactorily developers can learn, understand, and apply an Application Programming Interface to achieve intended tasks within a given context of use.
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What Makes APIs Hard to Learn? Answers from Developers
Martin P. Robillard · IEEE Software · 2009 · 383 citations
Computing, Design, Documentation +11
Improving API documentation usability with knowledge pushing
Uri Dekel, James D. Herbsleb · 2009 · 122 citations
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Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, United States
13 h-index
38 publications
1.8K citations
Microsoft (United States)
Redmond, United States
7 h-index
10 publications
595 citations
Google (United States)
Mountain View, United States
5 h-index
11 publications
178 citations
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
4 h-index
5 publications
935 citations
University of Duisburg-Essen
Essen, Germany
3 h-index
6 publications
248 citations
TU Wien
Vienna, Austria
3 h-index
6 publications
184 citations
Pennsylvania State University
State College, United States
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2 publications
40 citations
The Open University
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
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2 publications
48 citations
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- Information and Software Technology
4 publications · 186 citations
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- IEEE Software
3 publications · 506 citations
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- IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
TSE · 3 publications · 298 citations
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- Proceedings/Proceedings -- IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
2 publications · 102 citations
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- ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
SEN · 2 publications · 40 citations
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