Usability evaluation of web support frameworks

Abstract

Web frameworks are tools for building web applications, through different mechanisms (components, classes, templates, descriptors, configuration files, etc.) these tools enable rapid application development. The usability evaluation to web frameworks can help developers in comparing and selecting them, and help to identify weaknesses and make improvements. Documentation resources and supports available on official websites, (books, tutorials, get started, videos, examples, community, blogs, forums, github, stack overflow, wikis, chats, mailing lists) generally are intended to assist and support the developer in using the framework, these elements should be analyzed as determinants of usability and quality from attributes, metrics and measures. This paper proposes a set of elements for evaluating the usability of support, from the analysis of available and published resources of 17 web frameworks, considered among very popular, recognized and used in web development communities. An experience of this proposal implementation is also presented.