Paper Info
Title
Usability heuristics for domain-specific languages (DSLs)
Abstract
The usability of Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) has been attracting considerable interest from researchers lately. In particular, our literature review found many usability studies that make use of subjective and empirical methods. However, we noted a lack of heuristic methods in the literature. In comparison, there exist several usability studies of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that have used heuristics with success, so we argue that this approach would be also useful for DSLs. Therefore, this paper proposes a set of usability heuristics for DSLs and illustrates the approach with a case study. We show how our heuristics helped us identify many actual usability problems, even for a simple DSL.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3341105.3374234
SAC '20: The 35th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing Brno Czech Republic March, 2020
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
Domain-Specific Languages, DSL, Heuristic Evaluation, Usability, Heuristics, Usability Taxonomy
Conference
978-1-4503-6866-7
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eduardo Mosqueira-Rey19311.62
David Alonso-Ríos2706.61