Diwelwatta Gamage, Chamila

Developing a systematic approach to evaluate the usability of security APIs

https://www.unsworks.unsw.edu.au/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=unsworks_69283&vid=UNSWORKS&lang=en_US&context=L

PhD thesis by Chamila Wijayarathna.

Diwelwatta Gamage , Chamila Dilshan ; Gamagedara Arachchilage , Nalin Asanka

Task guidelines and the CDF questionnaire instrument of security API usability study

Research Data Australia

https://researchdata.edu.au/task-guidelines-cdf-usability-study/1432068

Resources to replicate security API usability studies.

http://apistylebook.com/

Great list of guidelines and discussions

Stylos J., Myers B., Yang Z.

Jadeite: improving API documentation using usage information

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1520340.1520678

Jeong, S., Xie, Y., Beaton, J., Myers, B., Stylos, J., Ehret, R., Karstens, J., Efeoglu, A., Busse, D.

Improving Documentation for eSOA APIs Through User Studies.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/papers/2009ESOAAPIs.pdf

Improving Software API Usability through Text Analysis: A Case Study

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5208679&isnumber=5208666

Paper presented at IPCC 2009 Conference (Link may require IEEE membership)

Brandt, J., Guo, P.J., Lewenstein, J., Dontcheva, M., Klemmer, S.R.

Two Studies of Opportunistic Programming: Interleaving Web Foraging, Learning, and Writing Code

http://hci.stanford.edu/opportunistic/brandt_chi09_webuse.pdf

Daughtry, J.M., Farooq, U., Stylos, J., and Myers, B.

API Usability: CHIʼ2009 Special Interest Group Meeting

http://john.daughtryhome.com/publications/DAUGHTRY_FAROOQ_STYLOS_MYERS_CHI_2009.pdf

First gathering of professionals for the express interest in API usability.

Making APIs more usable with improved API designs, documentation and tools

Carnegie Mellon University

https://search.proquest.com/openview/5d9b5ea97d780f089afab105565a902c/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y

PhD thesis by Jeffrey Stylos.

Martin P. Robillard

What Makes APIs Hard to Learn? Answers from Developers

http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~martin/papers/software2009a.pdf

A survey of the problems programmers at Microsoft face when learning APIs.

Daughtry, J.M., Farooq, U., Myers, B.A., Stylos, J.

API usability: report on special interest group at CHI

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1543405.1543429&coll=portal&dl=ACM&idx=J728&part=newsletter&WantType=Newsletters&title=ACM%20SIGSOFT%20Software%20Engineering%20Notes&CFID=54928162&CFTOKEN=25962000

Dekel, Uri and Herbsleb, James D.

Improving API documentation usability with knowledge pushing

Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE 31st International Conference on Software Engineering

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1555001.1555047

Binkley, D. Jones, D.M., Lawrie, D.J.

Information Clustering for Data Structure Definitions

http://edu.technion.ac.il/Faculty/OritH/HomePage/HAOSE_OOPSLA_Workshop/Papers/Binkley.pdf

Students vs. professionals in the structure of data structures.

Practical API Design: Confessions of a Java™ Framework Architect

http://wiki.apidesign.org/wiki/Main_Page

Advice from an API designer.

Stylos, J., Graf, B., Busse, D., Ziegler, C., Ehret, R., Karstens, J.

A Case Study of API Redesign for Improved Usability.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/papers/Stylos2008SAPCaseStudy.pdf

Stylos, J., Myers, B.

The Implications of Method Placement on API Learnability

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/papers/Stylos2008APIObjectDesigns.pdf

Beaton, J., Jeong, S., Xie, Y., Stylos, J., Myers, B.

Usability challenges for enterprise service-oriented architecture APIs

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/papers/Beaton2008ESOA-VLHCC.pdf

Anslow, C., Noble, J., Marshall, S., Tempero, E.

Visualizing the Word Structure of Java Class Names

http://homepages.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/~craig/publications/oopsla2008-anslow.pdf

Beaton, J., Myers, B., Stylos, J., Jeong, S., Xie, Y.

Usability Evaluation for Enterprise SOA APIs

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/papers/SDSOA-p29.pdf

Stylos J, Clarke S.

Usability Implications of Requiring Parameters in Objects' Constructors

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/papers/Stylos2007CreateSetCall.pdf

Stylos, J., Myers, B.

Mapping the Space of API Design Decisions

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/papers/Stylos2007APIDesignDecisions.pdf

Ellis, B., Stylos J., and Myers B.

The Factory Pattern in API Design: A Usability Evaluation

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/papers/Ellis2007FactoryUsability.pdf

Enabling Use : The Effects of Scenarios and Claims on the Self-Efficacy of Using Application Program Interfaces

http://cat.libraries.psu.edu/

Interface Oriented Design

http://www.pragprog.com/titles/kpiod/interface-oriented-design

Kannampallil, T.G., Daughtry, J.M.

Handling Objects: A Scenario Based Approach

http://john.daughtryhome.com/publications/KANNAMPALLIL_DAUGHTRY_SIGDOC_2006.pdf

Informing API Design through Usability Studies of API Design Choices: A Research Abstract

http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/VLHCC.2006.27

Mica: A Web-Search Tool for Finding API Components and Examples.

http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/VLHCC.2006.32

How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters

http://lcsd05.cs.tamu.edu/slides/keynote.pdf

Cwalina, K., Abrams, B.

Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries

http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/academic/product/0,3110,0321246756,00.html

Advice from API designers.

Measuring API Usability

http://www.ddj.com/windows/184405654

de Souza, C.R.B et al.

Sometimes You Need to See Through Walls — A Field Study of Application Programming Interfaces

http://www.ufpa.br/cdesouza/pub/p390-desouza.pdf

questionnaire and ratings sheet for cognitive dimensions analysis

https://sites.google.com/site/apiusability/publications/Clarke_Cog_Dim_questionnaire.zip

These are the materials used in the original study, published in Dr. Dobbs

Supporting Reuse by Delivering Task-Relevant and Personalized Information

http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/icse2002.pdf

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/effective/

Advice from an API designer.

Usability Analysis of the Channel Application Programming Interface

http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA417334&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf

First in-depth report of an API usability analysis.

McLellan, S.G., Roesler, A.W., Tempest, J.T., Spinuzzi, C.I.

Building more usable APIs

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fiel4%2F52%2F14880%2F00676963.pdf%3Farnumber%3D676963&authDecision=-203

Earliest documented formal usability evaluation on an API (as far as we know).

Rosson, M.B., Carroll, J.M.

The Reuses of Uses in Smalltalk Programming

http://faculty.ist.psu.edu/rosson/Papers/TOCHI96.pdf