Developer experience · Three sequential empirical studies using multiple methods to identify increasingly specific usability problems.
Evaluation of integrated software development environments: Challenges and results from three empirical studies
Peer-reviewed research · 2005
Summary
IDEs are often functionality-oriented and difficult to learn/master; problems include representation of functionality and reusable program artifacts.
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Possible founder application
Use iterative, human-centered IDE evaluation; reduce representational clutter and improve affordances for tools, artifacts and reusable components.
Reported result
What the study found
IDEs are often functionality-oriented and difficult to learn/master; problems include representation of functionality and reusable program artifacts.
Research question
What the authors investigated
What usability problems do developers encounter in integrated development environments, and how can IDE usability be evaluated?
Design
Three sequential empirical studies using multiple methods to identify increasingly specific usability problems.
Sample and setting
Developers using IDEs; the abstract reports three empirical studies, while the page does not expose all participant counts.
Scope and transfer
Limitations to keep in view
The page does not provide all study-level sample details; findings are tied to the evaluated IDE contexts.
Research sources
Authoritative publisher/repository page fetched in this run; abstract, bibliographic metadata, methods/results and limitations on the cited page support this synthesis (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1071581905001102). Firecrawl research job 01a14366-d263-71d0-bc44-b95482987b7b returned this citation and metadata.