Y’all may also be interested in the website www.apiusability.org<http://www.apiusability.org>. Steven, can I put your materials on it? Jeff Stylos and I also recently wrote a summary article about the area: Brad A. Myers and Jeffrey Stylos, "Improving API Usability", Communications of the ACM, vol 59, No. 6, June, 2016, pp. 62-69, [cid:image001.png@01D22EB5.7A7AEB80] Official ACM DL entry<http://dl.acm.org/authorize?N03391>; html<http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/6/202645-improving-api-usability/fulltext> or local pdf<http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~natprog/papers/p62-myers-CACM-API_Usability.pdf>. Brad A. Myers Professor Human-Computer Interaction Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891 (412) 268-5150 FAX: (412) 268-1266 b...@cs.cmu.edu<mailto:b...@cs.cmu.edu> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam
From: 'Steven Clarke' via PPIG Discuss [mailto:ppig-discuss@googlegroups.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2016 9:58 AM To: Chamila Wijayarathna <cdwijayarat...@gmail.com<mailto:cdwijayarat...@gmail.com>>; PPIG Discuss <ppig-discuss@googlegroups.com<mailto:ppig-discuss@googlegroups.com>> Subject: RE: [ppig-discuss] Cognitive Dimensions Questionnaire for Evaluating API Usability Hi Chamila, Here is a copy of the questionnaire I used for evaluating API usability. Bear in mind that I reworded some of the cognitive dimensions due to perceptions at the time that the original names might not easily interpreted by the teams I was working with at Microsoft. This was not backed up by any empirical evidence at the time, I did it just based on my experience to the reactions I received when I first introduced the cognitive dimensions at Microsoft. I’ve also attached the ratings sheet we used when interviewing developers using this questionnaire. We would plot their responses regarding each of the dimensions during the interview on the sheet. Thanks, Steven From: ppig-discuss@googlegroups.com<mailto:ppig-discuss@googlegroups.com> [mailto:ppig-discuss@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chamila Wijayarathna Sent: 25 October 2016 14:30 To: PPIG Discuss <ppig-discuss@googlegroups.com<mailto:ppig-discuss@googlegroups.com>> Subject: [ppig-discuss] Cognitive Dimensions Questionnaire for Evaluating API Usability Hello all, I am a research student working on improving the usability of security APIs. In my research, I am planning to conduct usability evaluation for security APIs using the methodology Clarke (2004) described. However, when I searched through literature, I could only found parts of the questionnaire, but could not found the complete questionnaire. If there is a generic Cognitive Dimensions based questionnaire for evaluating usability of APIs, can someone please point me into that. Thanks in advance. Best Regards! Chamila 1. S. Clarke. Measuring api usability. Doctor Dobbs Journal, 29(5):S1-S5, 2004 2. S. Clarke, “Evaluating a new programming language,” in 13th Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group, 2001, pp. 275–289 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PPIG Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ppig-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:ppig-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To post to this group, send email to ppig-discuss@googlegroups.com<mailto:ppig-discuss@googlegroups.com>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgroups.google.com%2Fd%2Foptout&data=02%7C01%7Csteven.clarke%40microsoft.com%7Cc9ae334757664165d68008d3fcddc54d%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636130001832653312&sdata=A%2FdEDqWMifUwgK6y05%2BzQDkp9vX0zLL3UGZyewlhMBM%3D&reserved=0>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PPIG Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ppig-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:ppig-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To post to this group, send email to ppig-discuss@googlegroups.com<mailto:ppig-discuss@googlegroups.com>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PPIG Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ppig-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to ppig-discuss@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.