Usability Evaluation of Visual Studio Programming Tool

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Iqra Ashraf
Abdul Hafeez Muhammad

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In computer science, programming skill is considered as an expected result of a student’s education.    It has been investigated by heuristic testing that how much the programming ability students have, as they complete their first one or two computer science (CS) courses. In order to explore possibilities for assessing CS students, a trial assessment is arranged to evaluate whether students can program.  The main goal of this research was to initiate dialog in the CS community on how to done these type of assessments and improve the usability of such kind of programming framework.  Assessment is done in university with the help of heuristic testing in order to explore the usability problems of programming tool Visual Studio with the help of qualitative evaluation that involves Nielson heuristics to improve the usability of the interface. Visual studio experts evaluated the usability of it by 10 Nielson heuristics. It shows that the major issue arises are of interface students of first semester face problems as they were novice and layman users having little bit know how of the tool. Difficulty they face were in commenting the code, small buttons and not proper labels mentioned. Proper interface is recommended by the experts that ease in programming.

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