In search of design principles for programming environments
Stephanie Houde, Royston Sellman · 1994
Software development environments are becoming progressively more advanced in their support for construction of large software applications.However, it is still tedious and time consuming for programmers to build even simple applications.This paper describes an exploratory study which identifies some common problems experienced by programmers working with a range of currently available tools.Eight professional programmers were observed while each built the same simple application using a different !software development environment.Problems encountered during the authoring process were noted, Four categories of common problems emerged.Design principles implied by these categories are suggested.